Blockchain Imaginaries | Furtherfield Spring Editorial 2018
Editorial by Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett
The blockchain is 10 years old and is surrounded with a hype hardly seen since
the arrival of the Web. We’d like to see more variety in the imaginaries that
underpin blockchains and the backgrounds of the people involved because
technologies develop to reflect the values, outlooks and interests of those
that build them.
Geometries, Moods and Decentralised Cooperations.
This collection of art and blockchain essays, interviews and events, offers a
wide spread of exploration and critique.
The blockchain is an evocative concept, but progress in ideas of cryptographic
decentralisation didn’t stop in 2008. It’s helpful for artists to get a sense
of the plasticity of new technical media. So first we are pleased to share with
you Blockchain Geometries a guide by Rob Myers to the proliferation of
blockchain forms, ideas and their practical and imaginative implications.
In Moods of Identification Emily Rosamond writes her response to our second
DAOWO workshop, Identity Trouble (on the blockchain). She reflects on both
ongoing attempts to reliably verify identity, and continuing counter-efforts to
evade such verifications.
Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon speak here with Marc Garrett in an interview
republished from our book with Torque Editions Artists Re:Thinking the
Blockchain (2017). Mat and Holly convey a sense of excitement about
developments and opportunities for new forms of decentralised collaboration in
music.
Finally you can book your place on future events at the DAOWO blockchain
laboratory and debate series for reinventing the arts. Download the DAOWO
Resource #1 for key learnings, summaries of presentations, quotes, photographs,
visualisations, stories and links to videos, audio recordings and much more
from our first two events about developments in the arts and the trouble with
Identity.
https://www.furtherfield.org/blockchain-imaginaries/
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner
Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
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