<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">MoneyLab #3 Failing Better </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Date: 1 - 2 December 2016<br>
Conference: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam (NL)<br>
Cabaret: TBD, Amsterdam<br>
Afterparty: Roest Bar, Amsterdam </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">URL: </span><span><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/" target="_blank">http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">The aim of MoneyLab is to
research, map and probe (alternative) strategies of redistribution and
intervention in digital economy. It starts with the conviction that after the
great Bank Robbery of 2008, we can no longer only criticize financial
capitalism but need to foster alternatives.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">On Thursday 1
and Friday 2 December, Moneylab#3 will bring together a cacophony of
artistic and economic experimentation that offer strategies for the 99%. A
two-day symposium of talks, workshops, performances and parties
that tackle the assumption that there is anything too big
to fail.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Themes </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Universal Basic Income, Feminist
Economics, Decentralized Democracy, Smart Contracts,
DAOs, Networked Publishing, P2P Distribution, Digital Licenses, Music
Revenue Models, Platform Cooperativism, Crowdfunding, Commons Transition.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Background</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">After Bitcoin forked, and
remains in tatters, it is now blockchain technology that ignites visions of
de-regulated and decentralized organization, while it is simultaneously being
sanitized by commercial banks. Meanwhile <span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">the
sharing and “service” economy lost its innocuous veneer and streaming services
have failed and continue to fold the music industry. Despite
the mutation of crowdfunding into crowd-equity and platform
co-operatives, artists and designers continue to struggle to financially
support themselves. All the while the </span>financial mediators of the
previous centuries continue to drag themselves onward into global debt. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(33,33,33)">We are failing better,
nonetheless. Workers’ unions are on the rise and numerous collectives
are working together to collectively insure their own wellbeing and build</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(33,33,33)">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 some governments in Europe
have begun experimenting with progressive policies such as a living working
wage and a universal basic income.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Moneylab#3 will assess the
ambition of financial provocations that have ignited and dispersed from grass-roots
movements to people’s political parties to establish a terrain of social and
political reform, from de-centralized networks to state governments. The rift
we find ourselves in stems much further than 'the banks.' Moneylab#3 will
examine how financial retaliation has led to political reformation and asks
whether the ambitious advancements in finance and governance can be
considered attempts to fail better.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Confirmed speakers </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Tori Abernathy, Dušan
Barok, Steyn Bergs<span style="color:rgb(122,122,122)">, </span>Alex
Foti, Max Haiven, Lars Holdhus, Austin Houldsworth, Bindu
de Knock, Simona Levi, Jeroen Van Loon, Silvio Lorusso, Renzo
Martens, Dan Mihaltianu, Emily Rosamond, Trebor Scholz<span style="color:rgb(122,122,122)">, </span>Brett Scott, Cassie Thornton & Henry
Warwick.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Partners </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://baltanlaboratories.org/" target="_blank">Baltan Laboraties</a>, <a href="http://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/" target="_blank">Feminist Economics Department</a>,
Fine Art Financ€ Lab, <a href="http://furtherfield.org/gallery" target="_blank">Futherfield
Gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.publishinglab.nl/" target="_blank">PublishingLab</a>
& University of the Phoenix. <br>
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<b>Practical information</b> <a href="http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/conference-sessions/" title="networkcultures.org/moneylab" target="_blank">networkcultures.org/moneylab</a><br>
Tickets: € 30 per day incl. lunch / € 60 passe-partout incl. lunch / Students
50% discount, incl lunch</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Tickets:</span><span><span style="font-size:11pt"> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/moneylab-3-failing-better-tickets-24617026188" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/moneylab-3-failing-better-tickets-24617026188</a>
</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
Tickets for individual panels will be sold separately from September. <br>
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University of Applied Sciences, CREATE-IT, Amsterdam Center of Expertise, and
the Amsterdam Creative Industries Network. </span></p>

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