MoneyLab #5: Matters of Currency
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
341 DELAWARE AVE., BUFFALO, NY 14202
27–28 April 2018
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Matters of Currency
It is no longer clear how the axiom “money is power” still holds—if it ever did—in an era of cryptocurrencies, local currencies, free trade zones as financial instruments, “cheap nature” and resource extraction, offshore tax havens, and their leaks in things like the paradise papers. The terms “making” and “money” both mutate with their globally distributed technological, financial and legal frameworks now independent of national regulations.
Common to and between all these mutations, a new relationship to the physicality of money appears: what is the matter and materiality of money? What is the current physicality of value? Currency and matter both resonate with multiple significations today, and invoke the need to examine the “making of money” from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This symposium brings together a range of voices contributing to possible answers for these questions, from fields including Philosophy, Art, Architecture, Computer Science, Community Activism and more. Participants will variously examine different forms of money—objects, life and spaces—for their physicalities, or matters.
Through workshops, talks and panel discussions, “Matters of Currency” will shed new light on money- power relations as mirrored in changing relations to technological and material transformations in the world today.
Program
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Friday, April 27
Locations:
Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street) &
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Avenue)
- 9:00–9:30 am | Coffee/Check-in at Squeaky Wheel
- 9:30–9:45 am | Welcome
- 9:45–11:15 am | Workshop 1: Cassie Thornton
- 11:15–11:30 am | Break
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Workshop 2: LittleSis
- 12:30–1:30 pm | Lunch
- 1:30–2:30 pm | Workshop 3: Paul Kolling/Terra0
- 2:30–3:00 pm | Change of Venues to Hallwalls + Coffee Break
- 3:00–4:00 pm | Screening: Love & Labor, Stephanie Andreou & Sarah Keeling, 2017
- 4:00–5:00 pm | UB Plenary: Jordan Geiger, Chris Lee, Stephanie Rothenberg and UB Faculty
- 5:00–7:00 pm | Keynote: Jason Moore
Saturday, April 28
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Avenue
- 9:00–9:30 am | Coffee/Check-in at Hallwalls
- 9:30–10:00 am | Welcome
- 10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Panel 1 | Money: Matters of Objects with Fran Ilich & Gabriela Ceja, Max Haiven, and Brett Scott | Moderator: Leigh Claire La Berge
- 12:00–1:30 pm | Lunch
- 1:30–3:30 pm | Panel 2 | Money: Matters of Life with Paul Kolling/Terra0, Cassie Thornton, Jaume Franquesa, Yvette Granata
| Moderator: Jason Moore - 3:30–4:00 pm | Coffee Break
- 4:00–6:00 pm | Panel 3 | Money: Matters of Spaces with Patricia de Vries, Adrian Blackwell, Caitlin Blanchfield, Caroline Woolard | Moderator: Abigail Cooke
Organized by:
Jordan Geiger, Chris Lee and Stephanie Rothenberg of the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute’s Research Workshop “Making Money: Critical Research into Cultures of Exchange.” A project of the Technē Institute for Art and Emerging Technologies in conjunction with the Institute of Network Cultures at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
Contact information: For questions about the event please email the MoneyLab Buffalo team at moneylab5buffalo@gmail.com