27 Feb 2014

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives - Sprouting new digital economic forms in times of crisis

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives brings digital experiments with payment systems, revenue models and currencies into focus, against a dark backdrop of ongoing global economic stagnation.

Presenting researchers, artists, programmers and activists, MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives aims to critically probe the machinations, politics and governance of alternative digital-economic forms.

It is not enough to merely promote technical alternatives, we need to ask the hard questions: can revenue models such as crowdfunding function only as additional, symbolic sources of income? What is the future of internet-based currencies like Bitcoin? Are micro payments the answer? Is it, in fact, possible to imagine a sustainable network-economy?

Join discussions on the future design of money at the conference. At the MoneyLab Bazaar, discover people and projects making use of alternative digital-economic models and experimenting with financial payment systems.

Topics: Monetization of Everything || Dismantling Global Finance || Designing Alternatives || Mobile Money || Bitcoin and Beyond || A Critique of Crowdfunding || Critical Art Practices ||

Speakers: Saskia Sassen (US), Stefan and Ralph Heidenreich (DE), Bill Maurer (US), Franco Berardi (IT), Brett Scott (UK), Tiziana Terranova (IT), Dadara (NL), Brian Holmes (US), Eduard de Jong (NL), Stephen Musoke (UG), Erin Taylor (AU), Taylor Nelms (US), Ron Peperkamp (NL), Aaron Koenig (DE), Beat Weber (AT), Quinn du Pont (CA), Inge Ejbye Sorensen (DK), Dette Glashauwer (NL), Max Haiven (CA), Eli Gothill (UK), Lana Swartz (US), Matthew Slater (UK), Jamie King (UK), Marijke Hoogenboom (NL), Gilson Schwartz (BR).