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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020'>MoneyLab #8</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020'><br><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri'>Minting a Fair Society</span></strong></span></b><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#1D2129;background:white'>LIVE STREAMING SERIES</span><span style='font-family:Colibri;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>11 May – 29 June 2020<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Colibri'><a href="https://aksioma.org/moneylab8">https://aksioma.org/moneylab8</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>STREAM #7 / <b>Monday, 22 June 2020 at 5 pm CET<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i>Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination<o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>With Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Haiven, Martin Zeilinger<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moderated by Inte Gloerich<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>+ <strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;font-weight:normal'>You are kindly invited to share your comments and questions trough the live chat!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Like many technologies, the radical potential of blockchains and cryptocurrencies to revolutionise the way we work, trade, cooperate and exchange has narrowed as major banks, corporations, and other powerful interests claim this potential for themselves. What has happened to those alternative futures lost along the way? What about the paths not taken in the development of this technology? Or was it fated to be this way? Was this technology cursed from the beginning? This panel seeks to explore the ghosts and spectres of alternative possibilities, of the radical imagination, that haunt today’s landscape of blockchain experiments. In an era when blockchains are being used for the purpose of increasing corporate power, of consolidating inequality, or for new forms of surveillance and exploitation, are other blockchain futures possible?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The panellists will seek to recover the political economies of the hacker-engineers, whose stories start with an affiliation to “decentralisation” that emerged out of experiences in pre-Bitcoin cypherpunk, hacker and peer-to-peer network cultures as well as consider money’s long history of “epic failures”, in which schemers, dreamers and tricksters have tried, and failed, to steal monetary fire from the economic Gods. Together they will question the task for a truly revolutionary money that would not only bring about a redistribution of wealth, but also a reimagination of value. Among the propositions, we’ll hear about exploring how blockchain tech could be used not for “fixing” property-based value systems, but for refusing such systems entirely. Instead of financialising creative practice and further commodifying aesthetic artefacts, can “crypto” resist property as such? How might an unownable digital artefact function on the blockchain?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:Colibri'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Colibri'>Follow the programme here:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Colibri'>FB event > <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/">https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:Colibri'>Telegram > <a href="https://t.me/aksiomaorg">https://t.me/aksiomaorg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:Colibri'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:Colibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020;font-weight:normal'>Organised and produced by:</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020'> </span></b><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020'>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020<br><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;font-weight:normal'>For the series:</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri'> </span></strong><a href="https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#007C89'>Tactics & Practice</span></em></a><br><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;font-weight:normal'>In the frame of:</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri'> </span></strong><a href="https://kons-platforma.org/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#007C89'>konS</span></em></a> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art<br><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;font-weight:normal'>In collaboration with:</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri'> </span></strong><a href="https://www.kinosiska.si/en/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture</span></a> and <a href="https://www.kinosiska.si/en/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Institute of Network Cultures</span></a> / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences<br><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;font-weight:normal'>In partnership with:</span></strong><a href="https://rijeka2020.eu/en/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'> Rijeka ECoC 2020</span></a> and <a href="https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Interface Cultures Department</span></a> / Kunstuniversität Linz<br><strong><span style='font-family:Colibri;font-weight:normal'>Media partners:</span></strong> Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio Študent</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020'>The project <em><span style='font-family:Colibri'>konS</span></em> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:Colibri;color:#202020'>The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marcela Okretič<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Project Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org">marcela@aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:Colibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>