Respondent, Art After Money, Money After Art

Rosamond, Emily. 2018. 'Respondent, Art After Money, Money After Art'. In: Art After Money, Money After Art. Furtherfield Commons, United Kingdom 9 December 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Art After Money, Money After Art is a workshop with Max Haiven, author of Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization.

In a world turned into a casino is it any wonder that corporate gangsters increasingly run the show? What are the prospects for a democratization of the economy when new technologies appear to further enclose us in a financialized web where every aspect of life is transformed into a digitized asset to be leveraged? Ours seems to be an age when art seems helpless in the face of rising authoritarianism, or like the plaything of the worlds speculator-plutocrats, and age when “creativity” has become the buzzword for the violent reorganization of work and urban life towards an endless “now” of competition and austerity.

And yet… we are witnessing an effervescence of imaginative struggles to challenge, hack and reinvent “the economy.” Artists, technologists and activists are working together not only to refuse the hypercapitalist paradigm but reinvent the methods and measures of cooperation towards different futures. This workshop brings together many of these protagonists and their allies for a discussion on the occasion of the publication of Max Haiven’s new book Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization.

Haiven will kick off the conversation with a short presentation of key themes in the book as they impinge upon the question of working at the intersection of “art” and new technologies (including but not limited to blockchains) to create alternative economic paradigms. The central question is, to what extent can these efforts surpass the (important) desire to redistribute wealth in a world of growing inequalities and, additionally, aim for a much more profound and radical collective reimagining of who and what is valuable.

Respondents include:
Austin Houldsworth
Dan Edlestyn
Brett Scott
Cassie Thornton
Kate Genevieve
Emily Rosamond
Jonathan Harris

Ruth Catlow and Martin Zeilinger will chair discussions and the event is sponsored by Anglia Ruskin University

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)

Keywords:

Art, Technology, Capitalism, Financialization, Blockchains

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Visual Cultures

Dates:

DateEvent
9 December 2018Completed

Event Location:

Furtherfield Commons, United Kingdom

Date range:

9 December 2018

Item ID:

25229

Date Deposited:

12 Dec 2018 09:30

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 17:01

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25229

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