[P2P-F] [spectre] ++Save the Date++MoneyLab #3: Failing Better (Amsterdam, Dec 1/2, 2016)

[Michel Bauwens]

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 <sp.travlou at gmail.com>
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 <
> max at networkcultures.org>.
>




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