Posts By: vince

Jerome Roos writes reflections on MoneyLab: ‘In each other we trust, coining alternatives to capitalism’

By vince, April 1, 2014

With panel discussions on “the monetization of everything”, “dismantling global finance”, “beyond Bitcoin”, “a critique of crowdfunding” and “designing alternatives”, the organizers of the conference set the tone right: in a world dominated by finance, a thoroughly indebted world in which money has effectively assumed the function of a universal signifier under which all aspects [...]

Franco Berardi – Money Language Insolvency

By vince, April 1, 2014

Franco Berardi started his presentation by linking the subject of money and alternative currencies to the Occupy movement, whose tonality and intentions, in his opinion, had a lot to do with hacking the future of money. Berardi described the Occupy movement as a ‘self affirmation of the body against the rationale of abstraction in the [...]

Ron Peperkamp and the Art Reserve Bank

By vince, March 31, 2014

Ron Peperkamp is an artist and the managing director of the Art Reserve Bank. His projects could be described as rather remarkable happenings, which, in a serious but playful way, invite the viewer to reflect on social and economic matters. Over the last two years, he has been running the Art Reserve Bank, hoping to [...]

Tiziana Terranova – Virtual Money and the Currency of the Commons

By vince, March 29, 2014

Tiziana Terranova began her presentation by mentioning she does not work on money and she has no specific expertise on this, other than working as a new media researcher for a long time. Therefore, she started making her argument on the virtualization of money through technology, and questioning the monetization of labour and social media. [...]

Hashtag #MoneyLab

By vince, March 26, 2014

The Twitter #moneylab feed was quite busy during the past weekend. Here is what people have tweeted while they were attending the MoneyLab sessions. https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2014/03/Twitter-Search-MoneyLab.pdf

MoneyLab presentations

By vince, March 25, 2014

In case you missed our conference or some parts of it and you want to catch up with what our speakers talked about, here you can find most of their presentations. Stay tuned for the full videos which are coming up next week! 1. Monetization of Everything: https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2014/03/1_Sassen_Saskia.pdf

The Arts-Economic Nexus

By vince, March 13, 2014

In a recent article on the World Policy Journal, Dette Glashouwer talks about her Money Project which you will be able to find out more about at the MoneyLab conference, where Dette will hold a theatrical performance. Read the article here.

MoneyLab program booklet

By vince, March 6, 2014

The MoneyLab program booklet has arrived, proudly conceived by our designers (VosBrenner.net) and team. Check out the conference program, sessions descriptions and speakers. Then, be sure to book your ticket for the conference.

Alternative currencies become more popular in The Netherlands

By vince, January 23, 2014

Just at the end of last year, the Dutch government was alerting people against trusting alternative currencies such as bitcoin, citing their highly volatile exchange rates and no accountable issuing institution. Apart from the worldwide bitcoin success, local currencies are gaining more and more momentum. In the United Kingdom, London has the Brixton pound.  In [...]

Bitcoin Explained (Daniel Forrester & Mark Solomon) – a review

By vince, February 3, 2014

‘Bitcoin Explained – Today’s Complete Guide to Tomorrow’s Currency’ is a quick and easy way to get started on some basic information about what Bitcoin is and how it works. The authors go through several crucial matters which are explained in a familiar way to people who have had some sort of experience with economy [...]