<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://github.com/Badger-Finance/gitcoin/issues/1">https://github.com/Badger-Finance/gitcoin/issues/1</a></div><div><br></div><div><h2>Our message to the creative world</h2>
<p>Only a few years ago, blockchain was all the rage, in finance, in discussing politics, rethinking institutions and in art.<br>
It was the utopian vision and the villain, the solution and the main problem, sliding on the Gartner Hype cycle of technology.<br>
This bounty is about what happens after disillusionment, with the tool
sets at hand and with resources in society, outside the confines of the
financial market.<br>
How can principles of decentralization offer new outcomes, after the promise and the failure of blockchain?<br>
What are the crypto lessons learned in order to walk towards futures more people are excited to encounter?<br>
Does it offer alternative models for art production and distribution?<br>
Artists, designers, tinkerers and creative technologists are invited to
explore Decentralised Finance and the Blockchain in what they brought to
the world and what they can put forward towards the future, for art as
well as for tech, as disruptive, productive and transformative models.</p>
<h2>Thematic areas to influence your work:</h2>
<p>The Public Domain, Solidarity Networks, Decentralised Finance,
Collective Good, Consensus Mechanisms, Alternative Economies,
Decentralised Governance, Decentralised Futures, Future of Work, Digital
Art Assets, Technologies of Archiving, Cryptomining, Datamining and
Carbon Footprints, Proof of (Art) Work, Collaborative Attribution</p>
<p>Submissions are not required to focus on finance and the (art)
market, but are invited to reflect on replacing the current system of
centralised finance, governance and decision making with the sorts of
decentralised concepts that have been built in the DeFi space, as well
as in other open source initiatives. You are welcome to explore matters
such as the history of the open source movement in relation to new forms
of centralization; how can markets be reconfigured to form mutual
growth, instead of knowledge asymmetry and competition through secrecy,
copyrights and patents; creative uses of distributed ledger
technologies; thinking beyond current implementations of technologies
into more energy efficient decentralization mechanisms, thinking beyond
current models of the art market etc. Inquiries include, but are not
bound to: speculative concepts, critical reflections, visionary tools,
multimedia experiences, timestamp art, microgrant ecosystems, archival
practices and wherever your imagination takes you in linking creative
work in thinking decentralised futures.</p>
<h2>Inspiration(s):</h2>
<p>On Decentralized Finance: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Z5BnBuFyE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Z5BnBuFyE</a>.<br>
The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mediarxiv.org/sf432/">https://mediarxiv.org/sf432/</a><br>
A Council of Citizens to Regulate Algorithms: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-a-council-of-citizens-should-regulate-algorithms/">https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-a-council-of-citizens-should-regulate-algorithms/</a></p>
<p>Wind Energy to Mine Cryptocurrency to Fund Climate Research <a rel="nofollow" href="https://julianoliver.com/output/harvest">https://julianoliver.com/output/harvest</a></p>
<p>Artists Rethinking the Blockchain <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.furtherfield.org/artists-rethinking-blockchain/">https://www.furtherfield.org/artists-rethinking-blockchain/</a></p>
<h2>Submission:</h2>
<p>Submissions are due by <strong>End of Day on July 7th</strong></p><p><strong>More on <a href="https://github.com/Badger-Finance/gitcoin/issues/1">https://github.com/Badger-Finance/gitcoin/issues/1</a></strong></p></div></div>