Money Lab: Coining Alternatives - International Conference, Bazaar, Workshops, Art & Performances March 21-22, 2014 @ Location: Lab111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam.

Money Lab: Coining Alternatives - International Conference, Bazaar, Workshops, Art & Performances March 21-22, 2014 @ Location: Lab111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam.

The full conference program is now available!

Friday, 21 March
09:00 – 09:30 – Doors open
09:30 – 11:00 - Session 1: Monetization and Dismantling Global Finance (part 1)
11:00 – 11:15 – Tea break
11:15 – 13:00 - Session 1: Monetization and Dismantling Global Finance (part 2)
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 15:40 - Session 2: Critical Art Practices
15:40 – 16:00 – Tea break
16:00 – 17:30 - Session 3: Mobile Money

Saturday, 22 March
09:30 – 10:00 – Doors open
09:30 – 18:00 – Alternatives Bazaar opens for the entire day
10:00 – 11:45 – Session 4: Bitcoin and Beyond
11:45 – 12:00 – Tea break
12:00 – 13:00 – Session 5: Alternatives Bazaar on Stage
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 15:45 – Session 6: Critique of Crowdfunding
15:45 – 16:00 – Tea break
16:00 – 18:00 – Session 7: Designing Alternatives

Who is coming?

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) and Gilson Schwartz (BR).

What else is happening?

Theater Performance by Dette Glashouwer on Friday, 21 March.

Crowdfunding workshops by teach2fish on Friday, 21 March.

Alternativez Bazaar on Saturday, 22 March: Bitcoin ATM, Perby, Timebank CC, Noppes, ShareNL, Transition Towns NL, Qoin, geheimagentur (with Kinderbank and Schwartzbank, DE), Kunst Reserve Bank, The Next Nature Network and ECO Currency.

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Ippolita: The Dark Side of Google @ Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, August 2013

about this publication: In The Dark Side of Google Italian writers' collective Ippolita provides a thorough, fresh analysis of what is behind the universe of Google and the metadata industry. In recent years Google has established itself as a major point of Internet access. We have progressively adapted to its sober, reassuring interface and its advertisements (discretely off to the side, yet always present). We have adopted its services and the habit of using it to the degree that 'googling' has become a form of behavior: 'If you don't know what it is, Google it!'

Google shows mastery in taking advantage of our need for simplicity. We sit in front of a colossus, an incredibly pervasive system of managing knowledge, comprising aggressive marketing and shrewd management of its own image, and the propagation of highly configurable interfaces that are still implacably recognizable. What is more, Google co-opts methods for developing Free Software, the use of futuristic systems for gathering and storing data. What lies behind the most consulted search engine in the world?

First published in Italian, 2007.
English edition revised and updated, August 2013.

colophon Author: Ippolita. Translator: Patrice Riemens. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Margreet Riphagen & Katja van Stiphout. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-6-7
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Pic: Ippolita @ Mountain View street corner in SicValley