Posts By: Vera van de Nieuwenhof

Panel discussion Bringing the Dark Side of Money to Light

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Katía Truijen Beyond the Financial Sublime: panel discussion with Cecile Landman, Paolo Cirio, Femke Herregraven and Paul Radu  The sixth session of MoneyLab #2 focused on bringing the dark side of money to light. How can we read and expose the abstract world of finance and its often invisible infrastructures, regulations, corruption and materials? [...]

Bruce Pon: Ascribe – An Ownership Layer for the Internet

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Joana Chicau Bruce Pon presented Ascribe, a project that proposes a solution for artists to control intellectual property by constituting a new “ownership layer“ to the existing structure of the internet. “Intellectual property is at this moment as valuable as any other physical property in the world. Why isn’t valued and protected as much [...]

Paolo Cirio: Daily Paywall & Loophole4All

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 14, 2015

By Joana Chicau Paolo Cirio is an Italian conceptual artist and hacktivist. His work is essentially building on a critical theory of information power and how that impacts the dynamics of social structures among individuals, governments and corporations. He investigates fields related to copyright, privacy, finance democracy and cyber-security, which then take the shape of [...]

DullTech™: Neoliberal hardware lulz

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 14, 2015

By Karina Zavidova & Anastasia Kubrak DullTech™ is a hardware startup, dedicated to once and for all solve frustrations that contemporary artists encounter using technology. Mo more stress or drama in making a video installation for an exhibition or an art-fair; no more remote controls or expensive AVI professionals to hire. DullTech™ media player effortlessly loops [...]

Degenerated Political Art by Núria Güell & Levi Orta

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 14, 2015

By Michaela Lakova Barcelona-based artists Núria Güell (ES) and Levi Orta (CU) presented two of their works: “Arte Político Degenerado“ (2014) and “Arte Político Degenerado Protocolo ético”(2014). The works are part of a series called Replica Analitica which aims to reproduce strategies and structures deployed by capitalism in order to analyze, expose and use them [...]

Max Haiven: Avenging Money

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 11, 2015

Avenging Money by Delaney Clark The “Avenging Money” workshop on Thursday afternoon was guided by Max Haiven, a writer and Assistant Professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada. His research focuses on economic and political studies applied to society and culture. This [...]

MoneyLab program booklet is finalized

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, November 23, 2015

Femke Herregraven delivered a beautiful program booklet for MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent, happening next week on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December at Pakhuis de Zwijger. Tickets are on sale here

MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent flyer

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 21, 2015

The MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent flyer is out now and coming to a debating center near you, bringing you program info of the upcoming MoneyLab symposium on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December. Two examples are for instance finance hackers Robin Hood asset management, democratizing intellectual (digital) property by way of Ascribe and many others. You [...]

Save the Date: MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 3, 2015

Amidst crashing markets the second MoneyLab conference hosts artists, activists, developers, scholars, and journalists that (re)imagine, re-model and challenge global financial stagnation. Please save the date for Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December, when MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent will take place in Amsterdam.

The Bitcoin Experience, Part Two

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 3, 2015

By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens Let’s leave Bitcoin behind and look at a whole host of other, alternate currency models alleging to complete, replace, supersede or simply exist alongside Bitcoin. Call them whatever you want (‘digital cash’, ‘crypto-currencies’,  etc. – we will give a description/definition of sorts later on), what unites them is the [...]