Kia ora koutou katoa and happy Friday!
On 4 and 5 June 2021 Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington will host the 12th edition of the international MoneyLab conference series in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, NL) and the MoneyLab community. MoneyLab <https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> is an international multi-disciplinary network of artists, designers, programmers, researchers and journalists. It considers itself a critical platform for imaginative projects that build a more democratic economy, especially within the creative industry. An economy where not only ‘the big boys’ get the money, but where there are opportunities for everyone to participate. It looks far beyond the boundaries of current financial institutions and maps out new opportunities for the distribution of creative content, intellectual property and digital business models, together with and for the creative sector. The upcoming Wellington edition (first in Aotearoa New Zealand and only the second in the wider Southern Hemisphere after the 2020 Canberra/Hobart event) will bring together groups and individuals from the arts, activism, education and startup/tech sectors with a particular focus on Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as applied to community organising and mediated forms of autonomous/participatory governance and decision making tools. The conference is loosely based around three main topics, including an update on the recent Non-Fungible Token (NFT) debates with NZ-specific perspectives on tax/law and electricity consumption in relation to ‘making’ NFTs; current as well as historic overviews of practice surrounding Social Tokens, community currencies and cultures of sharing in Aotearoa and beyond; and a Māori/Indigenous lens on various technosocial constructs stemming from Blockchain cultures, such as the post-COVID future imaginations of Self-Sovereign Identity protocols. Accompanying the conference is an exhibition of crypto art and adjacent genre-bending work in both virtual and physical space, in collaboration with p0.nz/i<http://p0.nz/i> gallery. The show’s opening on the evening of 4 June will include presentations, performances and interventions by local and international artists and guests. Confirmed speakers and artists include Helen Dew (Living Economies), Mark Pascall (Wellbeing Protocol / The DAO Agency), Kaye-Maree Dunn (Āhau / EHF fellow), Alex Sims (AUK Business School), Kevin Shedlock (Koha Tech / WGTN), Ben Nolan (founder of CryptoVoxels), Robert Kirkby (WGTN Macroeconomics), Mohini Ochangco, Roman Mitch (Whitecliffe), neurocolor, Eric Barry Drasin, Marika Pratley, and more TBA! ML#12 organising committee: Walter Langelaar, Jennifer Ferreira, Songyi Lee MoneyLab board: Denise Thwaites and Geert Lovink ! MONEYLAB COMMUNITY CALL-IN: Across the Timezones MoneyLab #12 Wellington will have two moments in its programme for further, ad-hoc community engagement, and we invite you to come in and present your project or announce special events through one of these options: stage an intervention in the CryptoVoxels<https://www.cryptovoxels.com/> virtual space (parcel tba) on the Friday evening (4 June, 8pm GMT+12), or connect with the conference audience on the Saturday via Zoom or similar (5 June, 5pm GMT+12). Showing up in-person is of course also an option :) If interested, please contact Walter via [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> for more information. Practical Info: Friday 4 June @ p0.nz/i gallery for crypto art & design research 6pm – 10pm 212 Willis Street Te Aro Wellington 6011 Saturday 5 June @ Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington 9:30am - 6:30pm Te Aro campus, School of Design Innovation 139 Vivian Street Te Aro Wellington 6011 Full programme and website coming SOON! Ngā mihi nui and looking forward, Walter Langelaar https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/walter.langelaar/ Media Design Hoahoa Pāpāho Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] http://ada.net.nz/ Manage your list membership (Subscribe, Change to digest, Unsubscribe) http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list
