Just 0.6 Bitcoin from the target now!
;)
On 28/07/16 10:44, nathan jones wrote:
Hi,
delighted to announce Torque's new book and public discourse project,
in partnership with Furtherfield.
ARTISTS RE:THINKING THE BLOCKCHAIN will be a beautifully designed,
accessible introduction, speculative art and radical theoretical book
about this still largely mythical technology. It aims to reroute
conversations that up to now have been dominated by financial
concerns, into less utilitarian areas.
We're over halfway through our small crowdfunder
<http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/artists-rethinking-the-blockchain>, so
we just need a few more pre-orders and pledges to help us get the
project launched. Your pre-order or donation will contribute to
printing costs, and most importantly help us compete for funding from
Arts Council England, which is tricky given the shadowy subject matter.
So we need all the help we can!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kngWnLDyeCM
We're also seeking proposals
<http://www.torquetorque.net/projects/open-call-artists-rethinking-the-blockchain/> for
content.
http://www.torquetorque.net/projects/open-call-artists-rethinking-the-blockchain/
After a range of public events, Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain
book will launch in Jan 2017 as a limited edition print edition and
freely available digital copies, accompanied by a
blockchain-based-protocol version.
It will be our third book after Mind Language Technology
<http://www.torquetorque.net/publications/torque-1-mind-language-and-technology/>(2014)
and The Act of Reading
<http://www.torquetorque.net/products-page/product-category/torque-2-print-ed/>(2015).
The book will be designed by Mark Simmonds.
torquetorque.net <http://torquetorque.net>
Do share the info if you think others will be interested.
WTF?!
The blockchain is best known as the technology which underlies
'Bitcoin', but our central assertion is that there is need for
discourse, play and speculation by practitioners outside of
financial-technology circles - particularly given the potential for
democratic and cultural changes which have been proposed as part of
blockchain's evolutions.
If you don't know anything or not much about the potentials of the
blockchain, this book aims to bring you up to speed on theory and
mechanics of this new technology. If you do, its a platform to combine
the inventiveness of creative culture with this emergent technology.
It's a hugely resonant time to be undertaking this project, as the
book and discussions will show. Our current systems of governance,
finance and civic mechanics appear to be crumbling under 'post-truth'
politics, psychotic economics and media saturation. Is the blockchain
going to be our saviour? Probably not. But art is a great way to
understand and communicate the reach of new technologies - as well as
bend and reroute them.
We also believe that artists are well placed to communicate with
people about what the future of the blockchain might *really feel
like*. This will strand will take the form of science fictions,
experimental texts, code-recipes, speculative essays, illustrations,
diagrams, and hybrids of all these.
PLEDGE
£5 gets your name inscribed in this landmark publication,
you can pre-order the book at a discounted £15.
There's also screen prints and suchlike available.
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/artists-rethinking-the-blockchain
CONTRIBUTE
An Open Call for essays, artworks, poems etc.
http://www.torquetorque.net/projects/open-call-artists-rethinking-the-blockchain/
[another open call specifically for poets/text artists, based on PW
Studio's Txtblock concept, will launch in a few weeks]
As well as a book, we're going to be hosting several events in Tate
and Furtherfield in London and with St Helens' Heart of Glass project
in the North West getting people engaged in these kinds of ideas, and
gathering their thoughts for publication.
There's loads of lovely rewards there for pledgers.
Hope you enjoy it.
best wishes,
Nathan
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http://mercyonline.co.uk <http://mercyonline.co.uk/>
http://torquetorque.tumblr.com <http://torquetorque.tumblr.com/>
http://alittlenathan.co.uk <http://alittlenathan.co.uk/>
http://electronicvoicepheneomena.net
<http://electronicvoicepheneomena.net/>
mob: 07877660150
twtr: @nathmercy
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