Inte Gloerich is a critical media and technology researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures. She is one of the core people behind the research community MoneyLab and recently finished her PhD on feminist blockchain imaginaries. In this episode of Art in Permacrisis, we discuss blockchain beyond the hype, and beyond the wish to get rich fast. How can blockchain be a tool for radical imagination and decentralised autonomous organising in the arts? We discuss concepts and dilemmas, and briefly revisit what’s left of the NFT boom, but we mainly dive into the practices of contemporary DAOs, from Dayra, to Black Swan, The Sphere, Circles, and CultureStake. What works? What doesn’t work? How? And why?

Inte Gloerich’s new book, titled ‘Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future’, will be published by the Institute of Network Cultures soon. Keep an eye out on networkcultures.org.

Links & References

Inte’s website: www.integloerich.nl

MoneyLab: www.networkcultures.org/moneylab

Terra0: www.terra0.org

Video explaining Dayra: www.vimeo.com/721710848?

Article explaining Black Swan DAO: www.kw-berlin.de/en/black-swan-dao

Circles Coop Berlin: www.circles.coop

The Sphere: www.thesphere.as

Commons[dot]art: www.casco.art/projects/commons-art

ReUnion: www.reunionnetwork.org

CultureStake: www.culturestake.org

Furtherfield: www.furtherfield.org

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Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on organizing art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises, published by the Institute of Network Cultures and Caradt. This episode was hosted by Sepp Eckenhaussen and edited by Salome Berdzenishvili.