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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>y<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>ou are kindly invited to join us at the last session of </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'>MoneyLab #8</span></strong><b><span style='color:#202020'> - <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Minting a Fair Society,</span></strong></span></b><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal'> a</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'> </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal'>live streaming series running from</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'> </span></strong>11 May to 29 June 2020 at <a href="https://aksioma.org/moneylab8">https://aksioma.org/moneylab8</a>. <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>You are very welcome 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>STREAM #8 / <b>Monday, 29 June 2020 at 5 pm CET<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i>Value extraction and the workforce of the cryptocene<o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>With Martín Nadal, César Escudero Andaluz, Telekommunisten, Sašo Sedlaček and Nascent<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moderated by Aude Launay<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#020202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Value is classically said to stem from human labor, and money to represent this value. Although those theories have been made obsolete by, among other things, the subjectivization of value which opened the door to the narratives of financialization, the idea that value should be objectively linked to the steps of its production endures in our economic imaginaries. Whether ‘labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things’ or whether its value was indexed to the profit derived from it—the consequences of which we can see now more clearly than ever when it comes to the wages of ‘essential workers’—the production of value with regards to labor still stands as one of the most pressing issues of the digital evolution.</span><span style='color:#020202'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#020202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>It is interesting to bear in mind that, in the Western European region, work doesn’t seem to have been socially valued until relatively late—around the 18th century—but has then been largely glorified by the nascent modern education system of the 19th century. An activity traditionally devalued, or even at times condemned, since antiquity, work was then opposed to the spiritual meaning of life (and actually, to military activites too). Human beings were to find self-fulfillment with <i>otium</i> (meditation, reflection, poetry and politics…)—or war—, and not with its negation, <i>negotium</i> (trade, business…).</span><span style='color:#020202'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#020202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>After centuries of direct workers exploitation, the late 20th century saw <i>otium</i> and <i>negotium </i>merge</span><span style='color:#020202'> <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>in a new knowledge economy that extracted value from intellectual and cultural work. What some view as a path towards a sort of ‘dotCommunism’ unfortunately mostly led to a ‘data is the new oil’ state of mind. The situation and the history that produced it are of course more complex and it’s an attempt at mapping them through the lense of the massification of interest in cryptography that <b>Martín Nadal and Cesar Escudero Andaluz</b> propose with <i>Economy, Knowledge and Surveillance in the Age of the Cryptocene.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#020202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Not only did</span><span style='color:#020202'> <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>data extraction turn each and every internet user into an unwitting worker<i> by </i>turning<i> otium </i>into <i>negotium</i>, but it is also heavily damaging everyone’s attention capacity to the point of seriously reducing our critical thinking ability. This is the question addressed by <i>Ishtar Gate</i>, a</span> <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>blockchain-based micro-economy-in-the-arts platform devised by the writer and visual theorist Penny Rafferty together with <b>Nascent</b>, designed to reward the reading of critical content and its comment with tokens exchangeable in real life. One step further in this return to valuing <i>otium</i>, <b>Sašo Sedlaček</b> turns some data extraction technologies—such as real-time pose estimation—against themselves, and allows the users of its <i>Oblomo</i> platform to mine cryptocurrencies while standing still, and to exchange the product of those physically inactive moments for the workforce of other people willing to, for instance, mow your lawn or wash your car. And what if, in this age of ever-expanding automation, we could evaluate the machinic workforce and transmit it through a currency? Embedding the classical labor value theory in a rational digital cryptocurrency, the <i>Haket </i>designed by <b>Telekommunisten</b> is intended as a criticism of the Bitcoin architecture and as way to rethink it as a stable currency thus usable as a currency.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=IT style='color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Follow the programme here:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>FB event > <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/">https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Telegram > <a href="https://t.me/aksiomaorg">https://t.me/aksiomaorg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal'>Organised and produced by:</span></strong><b><span style='color:#202020'> </span></b><span style='color:#202020'>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>For the series:</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></strong><a href="https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#007C89'>Tactics & Practice</span></em></a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>In the frame of:</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></strong><a href="https://kons-platforma.org/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#007C89'>konS</span></em></a> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>In collaboration with:</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </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:"Calibri",sans-serif;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:"Calibri",sans-serif;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='color:#202020'>The project <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>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='color:#202020'>The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European 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