Symposium Report: MoneyLab#2 – Economies of Dissent is now online

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, February 1, 2016

For those of you who were there or for those who couldn’t attend: please find attached the full symposium report of MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent, including links to video reports. Symposium Report MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent A big thank you to Max Dovey for all his contributions to MoneyLab#2, and for making this report.

MoneyLab internship

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, January 26, 2016

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with writing, research and production skills, for the organisation of MoneyLab#3 and overall project management support of the MoneyLab project. Internship period: March 1 until July 1 2016 (0.6 – 0.8 fte). MoneyLab is a network of researchers, artists, hackers and entrepreneurs and other creators [...]

Capturing the essence of MoneyLab

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, January 6, 2016

What makes MoneyLab a valuable project? Throughout the MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent symposium we asked speakers and audience what they think of the talks, discussions, workshops and art projects presented. The one aspect they all agreed on is the wealth of ideas they are exposed to by bringing together the most interesting artists, thinkers, entrepreneurs, [...]

Panel and Audience Discussion: Tactics for Economic Dissent

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 16, 2015

Panel and Audience discussion: Artistic Interventions in Finance

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 16, 2015

Femke Herregraven: The Privilege of Disappearing

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Anissa Jousset & Anastasia Kubrak Femke Herregraven’s work draws its inspiration from the domains of geopolitics and global finance. During her time as an artist in residence in the Amsterdam financial district, she discovered that her neighbors were mainly ghost mailbox companies, registered in Netherlands as a part of tax evasion mechanism. Carrying abstract [...]

Tactics for Economies Dissent Panel Introduction by Brett Scott

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Michaela Lakova Brett Scott is the moderator of this panel on ‘Tactics for Economies of Dissent’. He starts by introducing himself and the participants of the panel. Scott’s field of research and writing incorporates financial reform and financial activism, which look at different attempts to change the current financial system. On one hand he [...]

Venture Communism – Baruch Gottlieb and Dmitry Kleiner

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Delaney Clark Dmitry Kleiner and Baruch Gottlieb from the Telekommunisten art group based in Berlin joined us Friday afternoon  for the Tactics for Economic Dissent session. Through critiques of communication systems, the group’s art practices develops alternative platforms and programs to subvert centralized and hierarchical structures of society. One of the first slides from [...]

Rachel O’Dwyer: Storing Value

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Katía Truijen Rachel O’Dwyer writes about the political economy of communications, the digital commons and new media cultures. Her research areas include mobile communications and radio spectrum, open networks and alternative currencies. In her presentation at MoneyLab, she raised the question what kind of sociality we are engineering into our alternative monetary systems. Money [...]

Eduard de Jong: A short history of the Blockchain

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Katía Truijen MoneyLab #2 kicked off with a critical discussion about the blockchain. The session with presentations by Primavera de Filippi, David Golumbia and Bruce Pon was introduced by computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur Eduard de Jong. To create a common ground of knowledge about the blockchain, de Jong explained the audience about the [...]