Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/01-12-2016 -Event 1

Outside event: *MoneyLab #3 Failing Better Day 1 of 2 *Conference: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam (NL) Cabaret: TBD, Amsterdam Afterparty: Roest Bar, Amsterdam

URL: http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/

If there's enough of you interested in going PZI may be able to pay 15 euro's of a 30 euro 2-day pass. Start signing in under the sessions or per day at the bottom of the page:

Thursday 01 Dec: Fiscal Drag Live - Mezrab, Amsterdam - session descriptions below

9:00 – 9:30 – Registration

9:30 – 9:45 – Introduction by Geert Lovink

9:45 – 11:15 – Session 1: Global Finance: Failing Better? featuring Virginia Alvarez, Alex Foti, Renzo Martens & Cassie Thornton

11:15 – 12:30 – Session 2: When Art Mirrors Marx featuring Tori Abernathy, Steyn Bergs, Max Haiven, Jeroen Van Loon & Dan Mihaltianu.

12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00 – Workshops:

Session 3: Can Accountants save the World? by The Accountability Institute

'Session 4: Politics of the Cyphersphere organized by Fiber

Session 5: Prevailing Over Money organized by Dmytri Kleiner and Baruch Gottlieb

15:00 – 15:30 – Break

15:30 – 17:30 – Session 6: Save The Last Dance featuring Bindu de Knock, Henry Warwick & Koos Zwaan

19:00 – 23:00 – Fiscal Drag Live featuring Fine Art Finance Lab, The Feminist Economics Department, Tori Abernathy, and University of the Phoenix

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Session 1: Global Finance: Failing Better?

Beyond the culture of celebs, what comes after Ewald Engelen, Thomas Piketty, Yanis Varoufakis and David Graeber? How can we build bridges between economists and their critique of global finance, neo-liberal policies, financialization, shrinking middle classes and the ever-growing gap between rich and poor? Can we address the gap between the best selling financial book of the year and grass-roots social resistance?

‘Global Finance: Failing Better?’ addresses the need for a multitude of critical strategies that go beyond analysis and step up the game into action. As scores of citizens amass in public squares as part of Nuit Debout or campaign for political reform with people’s parties such as Podemos or the Five Star Movement, will the original underlying critique of global finance continue to inspire and mobilize direct political action? If financial reporting led to the rise of direct democratic action can writers critique of the global economy offer more to the building of viable alternatives? Can popular economic literature engage directly with the current social movements to become, more than just a conversation piece, but a potential manual to reroute the austerity economy.

Session 2: When Art Mirrors Marx

Artists are vital to deconstructing how finance and economics have affected our collective imagination, and to reimagining alternatives. Artists have been monitoring, tracking and intervening in finance to provide new insights and potential escape routes. Moneylab#3 invites artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to present research, experiments and interventions in finance.

‘When Art Mirrors Marx’ presents a selection of artists that invert and disassemble the intrinsic value of art to re-imagine the scope of artistic production and distribution. This is both through physical and bodily actions such as consuming and digesting pages of ‘Das Kapital’ to auctioning of the bodily DNA data belonging to the artist. But also artist initiatives that short circuit and circumvent endemic characteristics of the 21st-century economy, from developing working contracts and common funds to secure assets. What happens when art imitates finance? Can artists’ investigations into finance create viable alternatives for the masses? How can practical working models for artists become scaled for the masses?

Session 3 (workshop): The Accountability Institute

Accountants have an immense possibility to save the world, if they begin to change their language from one of ac’count’ing to one of accountability. This workshop aims to explore the social constructivist nature of accounting and the pervasive role its language plays in our everyday lives. We will begin to interactively reimagine our interaction with money, exploring alternative ways for individuals to participate in the economy. Permaculture ethics and design principles will guide this exploration to practical solutions that can act as forces for change within local economies. The third permaculture ethic – fair share – facilitates the satisfaction of a fundamental human need – that of security. We will embark on a journey of self-discovery by drawing on prior experience of money, accounting, economics, banking and finance in order to make explicit working ideas which can facilitate a shift from a false sense of security based on money to a more resilient, genuine form of security that is based on social relations and interactions.

Session 4 (workshop): Politics of the Cyphersphere: after the Blockchain Revolution

The Politics of the Cyphersphere workshop will trace the roots of crypto-movements in technological activism and artistic interventions to outline motivations and positions from a historical as well as technological perspective. The first cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) and more importantly the ‘blockchain’ are unarguably key inventions of the 21st century and this workshop will discuss possible pitfalls and current discourses around future applications of the blockchain from a socio-political dimension.  The less popular and more vernacular blockchain experiments will be discussed with a call for an open and interdisciplinary discourse in the cryptosphere in order to foster an informed and critical artistic financial literacy that can help develop the society of tomorrow. Workshop participants will be asked to contribute to a working manifesto that cuts through the blockchain hype and commits to a working creative strategy that harnesses the potential for distributed ledger technologies. This collaborative workshop contributes towards the Cryptolab Festival in May 2017 that will showcase a diverse range of interdisciplinary projects that explore the art, cryptography and technology.

Session 5 (workshop): Prevailing Over Money

Money takes the blame for economic inequality. But blaming money as a device is politically ineffectual. Money, is merely a social technology which, like every technology, benefits those with power disproportionally. In this workshop we will look at the social function of money and how it would be managed in a solidarity economy. Consequently we will examine what policies will be effective to move the current system towards a more equilibrated and sustainable social form.

Session 6 (workshop) :Save the Last Dance?

The music industry is still in repair after the disruption of digital downloads and streaming sites in the mid 1990s. Traditional rights management laws continue to restrict the creation, distribution and profitability of music. In addition to this, public performances are now monetized with the use of audio recognition technology in music venues, turning bars, clubs and festivals into sites of data-based economic revenue for major publishers and labels.

How does this play in the ever-growing festival and club scene? What are the goals for a global industry that now relies on counting streamed playbacks and selling hand-made band T-shirts? Can the outcry for alternatives be met with distribution platforms that disrupt the dominant players and reach larger audiences? And how is the club scene itself being affected by the ongoing real-estate boom in the metropolitan areas, usually seen as the birthplace of new music currents?

With: Henry Warwick, Koos Zwaan & Bindu de Knock