Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-30 Thread x 
Hi,

Apologies.. Perhaps the text wasn't clear enough.. I did watch the film. The 
points raised were intended to link with the less glairy eyed ideas. Points 
which seemed, in that context, relevant. Obviously, that wasn't clear enough in 
the text..

Going back to the name.. Is it intentionally kinda similar to naomi klein's 
book: "this changes everything"?

Cheers and all the best!

aharon
xx

October 30 2016 10:13 AM, "ruth catlow"  wrote:

Thank you all for your generous attention. Much appreciated as always.

Annie, the relentlessness of the visual and audio flow of the film are an 
intentional rhyming with (our sense of) the cultures surrounding blockchain at 
the moment. The information and meaning(s) can be extracted by repeated viewing.

Aharon, have you watched the film? You bring up interesting points. The title 
is not intended as a literal command.

Rob, glad you like the LARP idea, cos we may come to you for some advice on the 
DAO templating; )

I will post the transcript in a separate mail.

Respec
R

On 30/10/16 05:32, Rob Myers wrote: 

On 27/10/16 04:03 AM, ruth catlow wrote:

Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role 
Play) event for /Blockchain Budgetary Bliss /at the upcoming Moneylab  
(http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/) in Amsterdam. We will be 
building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps and organisations) 
for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the asymmetries of power at 
play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers wanted to sign up and participate.

Hey that's awesome. :-)

Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I 
personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know that it's 
here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle of its 
development to feel its strangeness and scope.

I think that's a good way to be. The blockchain is only a teletype or 
an email server, but look at what past art movements did with those, both in 
terms of social organization and political critique. - Rob.  

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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-30 Thread ruth catlow 

Thank you all for your generous attention. Much appreciated as always.

Annie, the relentlessness of the visual and audio flow of the film are 
an intentional rhyming with (our sense of) the cultures surrounding 
blockchain at the moment. The information and meaning(s) can be 
extracted by repeated viewing.


Aharon, have you watched the film? You bring up interesting points. The 
title is not intended as a literal command.


Rob, glad you like the LARP idea, cos we may come to you for some advice 
on the DAO templating; )


I will post the transcript in a separate mail.

Respec
R

On 30/10/16 05:32, Rob Myers wrote:

On 27/10/16 04:03 AM, ruth catlow wrote:

Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play)
event for /Blockchain Budgetary Bliss /at the upcoming Moneylab
 in Amsterdam.
We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps
and organisations) for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the
asymmetries of power at play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers
wanted to sign up and participate.

Hey that's awesome. :-)


Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I
personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know
that it's here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle
of its development to feel its strangeness and scope.

I think that's a good way to be.

The blockchain is only a teletype or an email server, but look at what
past art movements did with those, both in terms of social organization
and political critique.

- Rob.




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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-29 Thread Rob Myers 
On 27/10/16 04:03 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> 
> Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play)
> event for /Blockchain Budgetary Bliss /at the upcoming Moneylab
>  in Amsterdam.
> We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps
> and organisations) for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the
> asymmetries of power at play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers
> wanted to sign up and participate.

Hey that's awesome. :-)

> Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I
> personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know
> that it's here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle
> of its development to feel its strangeness and scope.

I think that's a good way to be.

The blockchain is only a teletype or an email server, but look at what
past art movements did with those, both in terms of social organization
and political critique.

- Rob.




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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-27 Thread x 
his infrastructure - autonomous software programmes to control devices (and 
their people no doubt). Rob Myers points at the political tensions with his 
DAOWO white paper 
(http://www.furtherfield.org/artdatamoney/includes/files/daowo.pdf) which is an 
important touchstone for our thinking.

At Furtherfield we are currently working with a few people (artists and 
techies) to develop more activities, workshops, events and resources to lure 
people beyond fintech to come and see what a blockchain might do (for better or 
worse) for expression, human and interspecies relations and governance etc

Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play) event 
for Blockchain Budgetary Bliss at the upcoming Moneylab 
(http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/) in Amsterdam.
We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps and 
organisations) for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the 
asymmetries of power at play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers wanted to 
sign up and participate.

Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I 
personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know that it's 
here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle of its 
development to feel its strangeness and scope.

Cheers!

Ruth
(not a blockchain evangelist)
On 27/10/16 10:57, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
Hi Ruth I wanted to say what a nicely made piece of work this is. It's a really 
compelling watch & I hope the launch goes well tonight. By the bye I do love 
the kind of hyper territory it creates by seamlessly melding the South Bank and 
an unfeasibly sunny Finsbury Park/Seven Sisters Road.My only reservation is 
that in all honesty I'm not sure how much more clued about the blockchain I am 
at the end of it. I'm guessing that it is a vehicle for starting a debate. I 
wonder if there is a place for an idiot's guide to the blockchain with nice 
graphics 
Anyway hope it goes great tonight...michael

From: ruth catlow  (mailto:ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org)
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity  
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:41 PM
Subject: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a 
Furtherfield Film 

Hi All,

We have made a short film called The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever 
about the impact of blockchain technologies. You can read about it and watch it 
online here. (http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/blockchain) The London 
launch of the film is this Thursday evening - see below for details and sign up 
if you want to come along. We'd love to see you there.

Ruth
 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=882=119703)
 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=883=119703)
Furtherfield would like to invite you to a Blockchain Meetup on 27 October 
6-8pm hosted by Digital Catapult 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=884=119703)
 at the Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road London, NW1 2RA
Register here 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=885=119703)
The meetup will launch the ‘Blockchain: Change Everything Forever’ 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=886=119703)
 film with drinks and networking for people interested in future possibilities 
for blockchain technologies.
During the meetup we’ll look to broaden and engage the discussion further to 
understand:
What can a blockchain do?
Who builds this new reality?
How will we rule ourselves?
How will the future be different because of the blockchain?
The Blockchain – Change everything forever 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=883=119703)
 is part of Furtherfield's Art Data Money 
(http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=887=119703)
 programme which seeks to build a commons for the arts in the network age.
Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England through the National 
Portfolio funding programme, Haringey Council and the generosity of individual 
supporters.
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-27 Thread Annie Abrahams 
pe it goes great tonight...
> michael
>
>
> --
> *From:* ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>
> <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>
> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:41 PM
> *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a
> Furtherfield Film
>
> Hi All,
>
> We have made a short film called *The Blockchain- Change Everything
> Forever *about the impact of blockchain technologies. You can read about
> it and watch it online here.
> <http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/blockchain> The London launch of
> the film is this Thursday evening - see below for details and sign up if
> you want to come along. We'd love to see you there.
>
> Ruth
> [image: Furtherfield logo]
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=882=119703>
>
>
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=883=119703>
>
> Furtherfield would like to invite you to a Blockchain Meetup on 27 October
> 6-8pm hosted by Digital Catapult
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=884=119703>
> at the Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road London, NW1 2RA
> Register here
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=885=119703>
> The meetup will launch the ‘Blockchain: Change Everything Forever’
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=886=119703>
> film with drinks and networking for people interested in future
> possibilities for blockchain technologies.
>
> During the meetup we’ll look to broaden and engage the discussion further
> to understand:
> What can a blockchain do?
> Who builds this new reality?
> How will we rule ourselves?
> How will the future be different because of the blockchain?
>
> The Blockchain – Change everything forever
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=883=119703>
> is part of Furtherfield's Art Data Money
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=887=119703>
> programme which seeks to build a commons for the arts in the network age.
>
>
>
> Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England through the National
> Portfolio funding programme, Haringey Council and the generosity of
> individual supporters.
>
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=882=119703>
>
>
>
> --
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> Furtherfield
>
> www.furtherfield.org
>
> +44 (0) 77370 02879
>
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> debates
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>
> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

2016-10-27 Thread ruth catlow 

Hi Michael,

Thanks for taking the time to watch the film. Glad you enjoyed its look : )
We wanted to capture the mixed urban flows of people going about their 
daily lives in London as this new protocol is getting developed.


Thanks also for bringing up the - /but what is the blockchain?/ - 
question. I'm sure that many others who've watched it will feel the same 
way.


You are exactly right that our intention is to start a debate - and a 
debate across different disciplines and tribes
We do have plans in the pipeline for infographics - but there are some 
examples of this out there already- see here 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSP-taqLWPQ>for instance


One reason why its hard to grasp - and I only really understand this now 
after gathering 5 hours of interviews on the topic - is that it is still 
in its really early stages.


Most people we interviewed for this film said that blockchain 
technologies are at the same stage of development as the web in the late 
1980s - pre ftp.
There is not yet the ecology of tools and interfaces to allow 
non-experts to playtest it. Though these are being developed.


I guess the easiest way to describe blockchains are as databases shared, 
updated, verified and maintained across many computers in a way (mostly) 
that cannot be jimmied.


So while currently world banks maintain a ledger (or database) of all 
transactions, and we rely on them to do this honestly - and it affords 
them influence over states, companies and individuals - a blockchain 
allows people (or at least those who know how, and who have the 
resources) to collectively maintain such a ledger of transactions or 
exchanges. And they are rewarded in digital currency to give over their 
computer processing power to do this.


This tech has come out of cryptographic anarchist traditions of the 70s 
- and is driven by libertarian enthusiasm to do away with intermediaries.
This is a technology that comes from the desire to allow individuals to 
control money and its circulation. However, now the major deployments of 
blockchains are private blockchains by world banks. This has MASSIVE 
political and social implications. The current developments are to 
deploy smart contracts across this infrastructure - autonomous software 
programmes to control devices (and their people no doubt). Rob Myers 
points at the political tensions with hisDAOWO white paper 
<http://www.furtherfield.org/artdatamoney/includes/files/daowo.pdf> 
which is an important touchstone for our thinking.


At Furtherfield we are currently working with a few people (artists and 
techies) to develop more activities, workshops, events and resources to 
lure people beyond fintech to come and see what a blockchain might do 
(for better or worse) for expression, human and interspecies relations 
and governance etc


Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play) 
event for /Blockchain Budgetary Bliss /at the upcoming Moneylab 
<http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/> in Amsterdam.
We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps 
and organisations) for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the 
asymmetries of power at play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers 
wanted to sign up and participate.


Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I 
personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know 
that it's here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle 
of its development to feel its strangeness and scope.


Cheers!

Ruth
(not a blockchain evangelist)

On 27/10/16 10:57, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
Hi Ruth I wanted to say what a nicely made piece of work this is. It's 
a really compelling watch & I hope the launch goes well tonight. By 
the bye I do love the kind of hyper territory it creates by seamlessly 
melding the South Bank and an unfeasibly sunny Finsbury Park/Seven 
Sisters Road.My only reservation is that in all honesty  I'm not sure 
how much more clued about the blockchain I am at the end of it. I'm 
guessing that it is a vehicle for starting a debate. I wonder if there 
is a place for an idiot's guide to the blockchain with nice graphics 


Anyway hope it goes great tonight...
michael



*From:* ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>
*To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
<netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org>

*Sent:* Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:41 PM
*Subject:* [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - 
a Furtherfield Film


Hi All,

We have made a short film called /The Blockchain- Change Everything 
Forever /about the impact of blockchain technologies. You can read 
about it and watch it online here. 
<http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/blockchain> The London launch of 
the film is this Thursday evening - see below for details and sign up 
if you want to come a

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

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> Am 23.10.2016 um 13:41 schrieb ruth catlow :
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We have made a short film called The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever 
> about the impact of blockchain technologies. You can read about it and watch 
> it online here.  The London 
> launch of the film is this Thursday evening - see below for details and sign 
> up if you want to come along. We'd love to see you there. 
> 
> Ruth
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Furtherfield would like to invite you to a Blockchain Meetup on 27 October 
> 6-8pm hosted by Digital Catapult 
> 
>  at the Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road London, NW1 2RA
> 
> Register here 
> 
> The meetup will launch the ‘Blockchain: Change Everything Forever’ 
> 
>  film with drinks and networking for people interested in future 
> possibilities for blockchain technologies.
>  
> 
> During the meetup we’ll look to broaden and engage the discussion further to 
> understand:
> 
> What can a blockchain do?
> Who builds this new reality?
> How will we rule ourselves?
> How will the future be different because of the blockchain?
>  
> 
> The Blockchain – Change everything forever 
> 
>  is part of Furtherfield's Art Data Money 
> 
>  programme which seeks to build a commons for the arts in the network age.
> 
>  
>  
> Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England through the National 
> Portfolio funding programme, Haringey Council and the generosity of 
> individual supporters.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>   
> -- 
> Co-founder Co-director
> Furtherfield
> 
> www.furtherfield.org 
> 
> +44 (0) 77370 02879 
> 
> Bitcoin Address 197BBaXa6M9PtHhhNTQkuHh1pVJA8RrJ2i 
> 
> Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for art shows, labs, & debates 
> around critical questions in art and technology, since 1997
> 
> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee 
> registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. 
> Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, Tally 
> Ho Corner, London N12 0EH.
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