1. Art x Decentralised Tech
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Alex Boyes, Aslak Aamot Helm, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Victoria Ivanova, Eva Jäger, Róisín McVeigh, Kay Watson, Marta Ferreira de Sá, Benedict Singleton, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Sarah Shin, Jay Drinkall, Seb Chan, María Paula Fernández, Sophie Netchaef, Katrina Sluis, Opashona Ghosh, Laura Herman, Anja Yencken, Roxy Zeiher, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Friend, James Wreford, Alice Scope, Amira Gad, Andrew Chitty, Annette Mees, Barry Threw, Ben Cerveny, Billy Rennekamp, Calum Bowden, Cem Dagdelen, Claire Tolan, Clare Reddington, Creative Commons, Doreen Rios, Eirini Malliaraki, Haus der Elektronischen, Künste, Internet Archive, Jaya Klara Brekke, Jo Lansdowne, Jon Uriarte, Julia Kaganskiy, Kei Kreutler, Kelani Nichole, Laura Lotti, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Matt Prewitt, Michel van Dartel, Paul Chaney, Penny Rafferty, Peter Wu, Primavera De Filippi, Roddy Schrock, Ruth Catlow, Salome Asega, Simon Moreton, Tom Higham, Tony Lai, Wade Wallerstein, Bettina Korek, Hans Ulbrich Obrist, Alex Boyes, Aslak Aamot Helm, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Victoria Ivanova, Eva Jäger, Róisín McVeigh, Kay Watson, Marta Ferreira de Sá, Benedict Singleton, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Sarah Shin, Jay Drinkall, Seb Chan, María Paula Fernández, Sophie Netchaef, Katrina Sluis, Opashona Ghosh, Laura Herman, Anja Yencken, Roxy Zeiher, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Friend, James Wreford, Alice Scope, Amira Gad, Andrew Chitty, Annette Mees, Barry Threw, Ben Cerveny, Billy Rennekamp, Calum Bowden, Cem Dagdelen, Claire Tolan, Clare Reddington, Creative Commons, Doreen Rios, Eirini Malliaraki, Haus der Elektronischen, Künste, Internet Archive, Jaya Klara Brekke, Jo Lansdowne, Jon Uriarte, Julia Kaganskiy, Kei Kreutler, Kelani Nichole, Laura Lotti, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Matt Prewitt, Michel van Dartel, Paul Chaney, Penny Rafferty, Peter Wu, Primavera De Filippi, Roddy Schrock, Ruth Catlow, Salome Asega, Simon Moreton, Tom Higham, Tony Lai, Wade Wallerstein, Bettina Korek, and Hans Ulbrich Obrist
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“Web3” is now part of our collective imaginaries, even if the specifics of what the buzzword entails remain murky and inaccessible to many. Originally coined in 2014 by Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum, to describe “a decentralised internet ecosystem based on blockchain,” the term took off after the NFT boom of 2021, catalysed by the embrace of the crypto ecosystem by the likes of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Like other social technologies, the swirl of narrative, attention and capital around web3 are as much part of its utility as the tools themselves. Mainstream discourses around “the web3 space”—and the blockchains, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies, decentralised web (dweb) frameworks that make it up—have been shaped by a cacophony of criticism, partiality and hype, played out over the past five years on Twitter and Discord. Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech (FAE3) attempts to take a long(er) view on the impact of decentralised technologies and imaginaries on the structures and processes that underpin the development of 21st-century cultural infrastructure, specifically art and advanced technologies (AxAT). The downward slope of the hype cycle towards another “crypto winter”—as well as a market correction in the wider tech industry—is a good time to take a sober view of the lessons, potentials and affordances that have been generated over these years of energetic innovation and speculative boom and bust…, https://www.librarystack.org/art-x-decentralised-tech/?ref=unknown
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- 2022