Posts Tagged: crowdfunding

Review: Het Grote Crowdfunding Boek

By Inte Gloerich, February 28, 2017

Door: Robert van Boeschoten “Het grote crowdfunding boek, De weg naar jouw crowd” is een boek geschreven door Simon Douw en Gijsbert Koren die allebei al vanaf begin af aan met crowdfunding bezig zijn geweest. Zij hebben een boek geschreven dat de toekomstige crowdfunder goed wegwijs maakt in het veld van crowdfunding. Gebaseerd op hun [...]

Crowdfunding future subversion

By maxhampshire, December 15, 2016

While crowdfunding has a long history that far predates the internet, online platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo pushed the relentlessly positive and entrepreneurial spirit any crowdfunding exercise demands into new territories. By contrast, Silvio Lorusso’s Kickended.com is an archive of Kickstarter projects which not only failed to meet their target, but in fact failed to [...]

Tickets MoneyLab #3: Failing Better now available

By Inte Gloerich, July 7, 2016

Tickets are now available HERE. Regular: € 30 per day incl. lunch / € 60 passe-partout incl. lunch Students: 50% discount, incl lunch Tickets for individual panels will be sold separately from September. MoneyLab #3 Failing Better Date: 1 – 2 December 2016 Conference: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam (NL) Cabaret: TBD, Amsterdam Afterparty: Roest Bar, [...]

European Commission: call for experts on crowdfunding

By admin, May 7, 2014

As discussed in a previous post – Crowdfunding regulation developments and possible implications – Part 1: Europe – one of the recently proposed initiatives of the European Commission was to establish an expert group that would inform it about crowdfunding. This expert group would furthermore develop a ‘quality label’ in the industry, namely to promote [...]

Crowdfunding regulation developments and possible implications – part 1: Europe

By admin, April 14, 2014

At the ‘MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives’ conference, we discussed crowdfunding as an alternative revenue model for the creative sector. ‘Alternative’ in this context is defined in relationship to mainstream finance models. One point of differentiation is the legal framework nexus – ‘alternatives’ are, for now, outside of it. Crowdfunding, however, might soon not be. Compared to [...]

Visualizing crowdfunding and beyond

By Nick Vieira, April 4, 2014

Irina Enache and Robert van Boeschoten introduced MoneyLab’s interactive Crowdfunding Visual Toolkit to the audience during the seventh session on the final day of the conference. Enache is an alternative revenue models researcher for the Institute of Network Cultures, specifically for the Moneylab project, and Van Boeschoten is a lecturer at Universiteit voor Humanistiek, with [...]

Peer to Peer or Mine to Mine? – A Critique of Crowdfunding

By minha, March 27, 2014

Inge Ejbye Sørensen is a researcher in digital economy and culture at University of Glasgow and also a documentary filmmaker herself. She has a particular interest in how crowdfunding changes the landscape of documentary film production and distribution in the U.K. She began her presentation “Peer to Peer or Mine to Mine? – A Critique [...]

Documentary-making in UK: between broadcasters funding and online revenue models

By admin, November 28, 2013

Inge Ejbye Sørensen has worked for more than a decade as an award winning documentary-maker for the major 4 TV broadcasters in the UK (BBC, Channel 4, Five and STV). This creative industry is also her research area as an academic. She is currently at the  Centre for Cultural Policy Research (University of Glasgow, UK), where [...]

New York Times: ‘Three years of Kickstarter’ – a start in researching crowdfunding dynamics

By admin, November 26, 2013

Creative and community projects turn to crowdfunding as a promising model of financing. The hype around this movement is generated by success stories of projects raising hundreds of thousands of euros, as well as the growing number of crowdfunding platforms on a local and international level. Nevertheless, building a successful campaign can be as challenging [...]

Crowdfunding: Redistributing Wealth or Monetizing Social Relations?

By admin, January 30, 2014

Renee Ridgway is an Amsterdam-based artist, freelance curator and writer. She recently published an incisive article on crowdfunding that goes under two different titles. In Data Browser 05: Disrupting Business, it takes disguise as the question of “Crowdfunding – monetizing the crowd?”. Given that 75% of that crowd statistically consists of one’s personal social network, things [...]