[ecrea] Moneylab #3 Failing Better

*MoneyLab #3 Failing Better ***

Date: 1 - 2 December 2016
Conference: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam (NL)
Cabaret: TBD, Amsterdam
Afterparty: Roest Bar, Amsterdam

URL: http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/


<http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/>

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.

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.

*Themes ***

Universal Basic Income, Feminist Economics, Decentralized Democracy, 
Smart Contracts, DAOs, Networked Publishing, P2P Distribution, Digital 
Licenses, Music Revenue Models, Platform Cooperativism, Crowdfunding, 
Commons Transition.


*Background***

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 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 financial mediators of 
the previous centuries continue to drag themselves onward into global debt.

We are failing better, nonetheless. Workers’ unions are on the rise and 
numerous collectives are working together to collectively insure their 
own wellbeing and buildalternative 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.

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.

*Confirmed speakers ***

Tori Abernathy, Dušan Barok, Steyn Bergs, 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, Brett Scott, Cassie Thornton & Henry Warwick.


*Partners ***

Baltan Laboraties <http://baltanlaboratories.org/>, Feminist Economics 
Department <http://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/>, Fine Art Financ€ 
Lab, Futherfield Gallery <http://furtherfield.org/gallery>, 
PublishingLab <http://www.publishinglab.nl/> & University of the Phoenix.

*Practical information* networkcultures.org/moneylab 
<http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/conference-sessions/>
Tickets: € 30 per day incl. lunch / € 60 passe-partout incl. lunch / 
Students 50% discount, incl lunch

Tickets: 
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/moneylab-3-failing-better-tickets-24617026188
Tickets for individual panels will be sold separately from September.

MoneyLab is an initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures, 
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, CREATE-IT, Amsterdam Center of 
Expertise, and the Amsterdam Creative Industries Network.

Please circulate this announcement and share logo banner on your website 
/ social media channels 
(http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/media/)



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