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

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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 Descriptions
  • 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
  • [abstract to follow]
  • Session 4 (workshop): Role Play Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss'

It has been said that in terms of its ecology of tools and infrastructures, the Blockchain is at the same stage of development as the World Wide Web in the late 1980s. Since 2013 blockchains have become a focus for investment by world banks, fintechs and corporations who predict a fourth industrial revolution of super-automation and hyperconnectivity that will increase global inequity. In this version of the future, code replaces legislation. Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) route around systems of regulation and taxation via immutable smart contracts. Those that grew up with the WWW know that decentralised infrastructure does not equate to decentralised power. Therefore it is crucial that people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds are involved when working out how blockchain technologies can be shaped in the interests of more diverse needs and interests.

Role play the formation of a DAO for solidarity and a commons for the arts in the age of networks. Experience and debate the hopes and tensions; work through the asymmetries, dramas, inequities and politics of coalitions across difference…. starting with the budget! This activity is a precursor to a series of smart contract role play and design activities for people of all backgrounds and disciplines – lawyers, philosophers, economists, financiers, artists, designers, developers – where participants will write social relations into code as a basis for debate.

  • Session 5 (workshop): Flexonomix District-Currency Game'

The District Currency is a newly designed commons-based community currency developed by FleXibles in Zurich and now being implemented by NetHood and the netCommons project. The district currency is used as a role model to demonstrate the power of democracy and the commons through an interest-free monetary system.

The Flexonomix® District-Currency-Game introduces a district currency for housing cooperatives. The Flexinomix workshop will experiment with how a district currency can be implemented in housing co-operatives and lead to a commons based community currency. By inhabiting the role of a co-op member, participants will be asked to improve living conditions for the district using the skills and requirements of the community. At the end of each round, new decisions will adjust the process. Commoning through a currency incorporates the abilities, needs, freedoms and obligations of the individuals, as well as the effect of the collective community. The question of how to realize such a currency will be challenged through this workshop and different opportunities or threads might be explored further.

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