The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies

Private view: Friday 16 October 2015, 5-7pm (register)
Open 11am-4pm, Saturday-Sunday or by appointment
Admission free

Featuring Émilie Brout and Maxime Marion, Shu Lea Cheang, Sarah T Gold , Jennifer Lyn Morone, Rob Myers, The Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC), the London School of Financial Arts and the Robin Hood Cooperative.

Furtherfield launches its Art Data Money programme with The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies, an exhibition featuring artworks that reveal how we might produce, exchange and value things differently in the age of the blockchain. 

Appealing to our curiosity, emotion and irrationality, international artists seize emerging technologies, mass behaviours and p2p concepts to create artworks that reveal ideas for a radically transformed artistic, economic and social future.

Also, as part of Art Data Money, join us for data and finance labs at Furtherfield Commons.

LAB #1
Share your Values with the Museum of Contemporary Commodities
Saturday 17 October, 10:30am-4:30pm
A popular, data walkshop and lego animation event around data, trade, place and values in daily life.
Free - Limited places, booking essential

LAB #2 
Breaking the Taboo on Money and Financial Markets with Dan Hassan (Robin Hood Coop)
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 November, 11:00-5:00pm
A weekend of talks, exercises and hands-on activities focusing on the political/social relevance of Bitcoin, blockchains, and finance. All participants will be given some Bitcoin.
£10 per day or £15 for the weekend - Limited places, booking essential

LAB #3
Building the Activist Bloomberg to Demystify High Finance with Brett Scott and The London School of Financial Arts
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 November, 11:00-5:00pm
A weekend of talks, exercises and hands on activities to familiarise yourself with finance and to build an 'activist Bloomberg terminal'.
£10 per day or £15 for the weekend - Limited places, booking essential

LAB #4
Ground Truth with Dani Admiss and Cecilia Wee
November/December  (date tbc)
Exploring contemporary ideas of digital agency and authorship in post-digital society.

LAB #5
DAOWO - DAO it With Others
November/February
DAOWO - DAO it With Otherscombines the innovations of Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAO) with Furtherfield's DIWO campaign for emancipatory networked art practices to build a commons for arts in the network age.

FURTHER DETAILS

The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies is part of Art Data Money, Furtherfield's new programme of art shows, labs and debates that invites people to discover new ways for cryptocurrencies and big data to benefit us all. It responds to the increasing polarisation of wealth and opportunity, aiming to build a set of actions to build resilience and sustain Furtherfield's communities, platforms and economies.

About Furtherfield
Furtherfield was founded in 1997 by artists Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow. Since then Furtherfield has created online and physical spaces and places for people to come together to address critical questions of art and technology their own terms.

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