Distributing ChainsDisassembling the trust machine: three cuts on the political matter of blockchain

Talks, interviews and exhibitions

Talks, panels, interviews and exhibitions listed on the project site as of late 2019, newest first. Dates and venues are given as they were published then.

2018

Computational definitions of authority, autonomy and control in blockchain, and its limits

Nov. 2018

Lecture and workshop, PACT Zollverein, Germany

Strategies for understanding the power, politics and ethics of blockchain and smart contracts

Aug. 2018

Lecture, Kunsthalle Bern

The future of blockchain, what could go wrong?

July 2018

Panel presentation, DappCon, an Ethereum developer conference

Symposium: Money

July 2018

Panel presentation, Fab14 and FabLab:Connect

The big questions: tech, power and society

July 2018

Panel presentation and podcast, Open:2018, Collaborative Technology for the Cooperative Economy

I saw the blockchain at the end of the world, turned around and walked back

10 May 2018

Talk in the Terraforming Earth series, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

It does not make sense to call this “peer-to-peer” anymore

April 2018

Interview with Raimund Minichbauer, published by Transversal texts

I am distributed: at the frontiers of blockchain

22 March 2018

Talk on magic, maths and indeterminacy, plus panel, Dubai Global Art Forum, with curators Ben Vickers and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Blockchain: rewiring governance

24 Feb. 2018

Panel “Politics and blockchain: trust and power”, Judge Business School, Cambridge University

DAOWO workshop and New World Order exhibition

16 Feb. 2018

Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia

Tracing trustlessness

8 Feb. 2018

Seminar, Computer Science department, University College London

Fork-politics in post-consensus cryptoeconomics

3 Feb. 2018

Workshop and panel with the RIAT Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics, Transmediale festival, Berlin

Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain, book launch

1 Feb. 2018

Talk and panel, Transmediale, Berlin

Risk Society Symposium

27 Jan. 2018

London Design Museum

New World Order

11 Jan. to 9 Feb. 2018

Exhibition curated by Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2017

Proof-of-Burn

8 and 9 Nov. 2017

Panel presentation and performance with RIAT, Future of Demonstration S1, Vermogen Episode 5, Vienna, Austria