dear Penny, can you publish this call on the p2p blog as well ? thanks a lot!
Michel On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Penny travlou <[email protected]> wrote: > *MoneyLab#3: Failing Better* > > A collective attempt to fail better with artists, critics and activists > that are all feeling the pinch. > > Amsterdam, December 1 & 2, 2016 > > Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (HvA) > > More on http://networkcultures.org/moneylab > Mailinglist: > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/moneylab_listcultures.org > > *Introduction * > > After Bitcoin forked, and remains in tatters, it is now blockchain > technology that ignites visions of de-regulated and decentralized > organization, all the while it is simultaneously being sanitized by > commercial banks. Meanwhile the sharing and “service” economy lost its > innocuous veneer and streaming services have failed and continue to fold > the music industry. Despite the escalation of crowd-funding into > crowd-equity and platform co-operatives, artists and designers struggle to > financially support themselves. Meanwhile, the financial mediators of the > previous centuries continue to drag themselves onward into global debt. > > We are failing better, nonetheless. Worker’s unions are on the rise and > numerous collectives are working together to collectively insure their own > wellbeing and build alternative models of social governance. The > aspirations of grassroots organizations such as Diem25, that promise to > liberate social democracy from the stronghold of global finance, are > gaining momentum across Europe. People’s parties such as Podemos and 15M > even neared an electoral majority. This momentum has thrust radical > economic alternatives into the central stage and governments around Europe > have begun experimenting with progressive policies such as a living working > wage and a universal basic income. > > The search for economic forms of governance in the service of the commons > remains urgent. Issues of trust, scale, distribution and ownership remain > at the core of developing alternative models of economic exchange and > governance and need to be addressed. Let’s prefabricate a perfect storm > of untimely thinking and experimental engineering in order to interfere > directly into hard-core social and economic issues. > > *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 > against global finance retain its sense of urgency? How has popular > economic critique propelled or even overshot its evaluation of the > financial crisis? 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: Big Pocket is Watching You!* > > The explosion of new forms of alternate currencies and the persistent > refusal to do away with physical cash indicates growing public concern over > the way in which electronic monetary exchange enables large scale data > surveillance. In a world without cash, every payment becomes traceable, > allowing for unprecedented amounts of data to be collected on citizens. As > more and more shops and retailers in large cities reject cash in favor of > electronic money, important issues regarding privacy, data and surveillance > become central to the future of money. These concerns echo wider debates > around data and surveillance – the Apple vs. FBI backdoor encryption case > has highlighted the mounting tensions between commercial and governmental > data surveillance. The financial upheaval and internal reconfiguration of > monetary transaction provides an optimum moment to discuss the future of > money and digital banking. > > What alternatives to electronic money can prevent citizen surveillance and > inspire radical visions of the future of money? > > *Session 3*: *The Music Industry: The Last Dance?* > > The music industry is still in repair after the initial 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 is > the vision for a global industry that now relies on counting streaming > 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? > > *Session 4: **When Art Mirrors Marx* > > Artists are vital to de-constructing how finance and economics have > affected our collective imagination, and to re-imagine alternatives. Artists > have been monitoring, tracking and intervening into finance to provide new > insights and potential escape routes. Moneylab#3 invites artists from > diverse backgrounds and disciplines to present research, experiments and > interventions into 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. We present works that reflect on the endemic > characteristics of the 21st-century economy, and that initiate > alternative value systems, from designing stock trading algorithms, to > occupying private banks to eating and digesting of pages from ‘Das > Kapital.’ What happens when life imitates finance art? Can artists’ > investigations into finance create viable alternatives for the masses? > > *Session 5: Whose Commons?* > > ‘Whose Commons’ is a timely examination of the commons as ideological > battleground. Amidst a fresh wave of digital initiatives that focus on > shared collective resources, that range from car-pooling to collective > farming, the sharing and social support upheld within the commons has > spilled into commercial ventures that see the virtue of the commons as the > essence to a better future. As the values of the commons are incorporated, > manipulated and brandished by both business models and co-operatives alike, > how should we reflect on and manage our relationship to the often-idealized > notion of the commons? As businesses and co-operations increasingly advance > towards de-centralized, p-2-p business models what are the core values > associated with the commons that we want to retain and permeate into wider > social movements? > > *Moneylab#3: Failing Better* is scheduled for 1–2 December 2016, again in > Amsterdam. A two-day symposium will be accompanied by a series of workshops > from art collectives, designers and activists featuring investigations into > artist contracts, experiments in digital publishing, artist revenue > platforms, p-2-p co-operatives, and experiments in universal basic income. > If you want to contribute to the program, please contact Max Dovey < > [email protected]>. > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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