[NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

Thu Oct 27 13:15:38 CEST 2016

Thanks a lot Michael for bringing it up (I also thought it was a good film,
but wanted them to also slow down) and Ruth for your reply.
Finally I understand something of the importance of being involved in this
technology. Yes.
I wish I could come to Amsterdam (or London). Good luck with the good work!

Annie

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:03 PM, ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to watch the film. Glad you enjoyed its look : )
> We wanted to capture the mixed urban flows of people going about their
> daily lives in London as this new protocol is getting developed.
>
> Thanks also for bringing up the - *but what is the blockchain?* -
> question. I'm sure that many others who've watched it will feel the same
> way.
>
> You are exactly right that our intention is to start a debate - and a
> debate across different disciplines and tribes
> We do have plans in the pipeline for infographics - but there are some
> examples of this out there already- see here
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSP-taqLWPQ>for instance
>
> One reason why its hard to grasp - and I only really understand this now
> after gathering 5 hours of interviews on the topic - is that it is still in
> its really early stages.
>
> Most people we interviewed for this film said that blockchain technologies
> are at the same stage of development as the web in the late 1980s - pre ftp.
> There is not yet the ecology of tools and interfaces to allow non-experts
> to playtest it. Though these are being developed.
>
> I guess the easiest way to describe blockchains are as databases shared,
> updated, verified and maintained across many computers in a way (mostly)
> that cannot be jimmied.
>
> So while currently world banks maintain a ledger (or database) of all
> transactions, and we rely on them to do this honestly - and it affords them
> influence over states, companies and individuals - a blockchain allows
> people (or at least those who know how, and who have the resources) to
> collectively maintain such a ledger of transactions or exchanges. And they
> are rewarded in digital currency to give over their computer processing
> power to do this.
>
> This tech has come out of cryptographic anarchist traditions of the 70s -
> and is driven by libertarian enthusiasm to do away with intermediaries.
> This is a technology that comes from the desire to allow individuals to
> control money and its circulation. However, now the major deployments of
> blockchains are private blockchains by world banks. This has MASSIVE
> political and social implications. The current developments are to deploy
> smart contracts across this infrastructure - autonomous software programmes
> to control devices (and their people no doubt). Rob Myers points at the
> political tensions with his DAOWO white paper
> <http://www.furtherfield.org/artdatamoney/includes/files/daowo.pdf> which
> is an important touchstone for our thinking.
>
> At Furtherfield we are currently working with a few people (artists and
> techies) to develop more activities, workshops, events and resources to
> lure people beyond fintech to come and see what a blockchain might do (for
> better or worse) for expression, human and interspecies relations and
> governance etc
>
> Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play)
> event for *Blockchain Budgetary Bliss *at the upcoming Moneylab
> <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/program-3/> in Amsterdam.
> We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps and
> organisations) for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the
> asymmetries of power at play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers wanted
> to sign up and participate.
>
> Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I
> personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know that
> it's here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle of its
> development to feel its strangeness and scope.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ruth
> (not a blockchain evangelist)
>
>
> On 27/10/16 10:57, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>
> Hi Ruth I wanted to say what a nicely made piece of work this is. It's a
> really compelling watch & I hope the launch goes well tonight. By the bye I
> do love the kind of hyper territory it creates by seamlessly melding the
> South Bank and an unfeasibly sunny Finsbury Park/Seven Sisters Road.My only
> reservation is that in all honesty  I'm not sure how much more clued about
> the blockchain I am at the end of it. I'm guessing that it is a vehicle for
> starting a debate. I wonder if there is a place for an idiot's guide to the
> blockchain with nice graphics &c....
> Anyway hope it goes great tonight...
> michael
>
>
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> *From:* ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
> <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
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> *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a
> Furtherfield Film
>
> Hi All,
>
> We have made a short film called *The Blockchain- Change Everything
> Forever *about the impact of blockchain technologies. You can read about
> it and watch it online here.
> <http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/blockchain> The London launch of
> the film is this Thursday evening - see below for details and sign up if
> you want to come along. We'd love to see you there.
>
> Ruth
> [image: Furtherfield logo]
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>
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=883&qid=119703>
>
> Furtherfield would like to invite you to a Blockchain Meetup on 27 October
> 6-8pm hosted by Digital Catapult
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=884&qid=119703>
> at the Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road London, NW1 2RA
> Register here
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=885&qid=119703>
> The meetup will launch the ‘Blockchain: Change Everything Forever’
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=886&qid=119703>
> film with drinks and networking for people interested in future
> possibilities for blockchain technologies.
>
> During the meetup we’ll look to broaden and engage the discussion further
> to understand:
> What can a blockchain do?
> Who builds this new reality?
> How will we rule ourselves?
> How will the future be different because of the blockchain?
>
> The Blockchain – Change everything forever
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> is part of Furtherfield's Art Data Money
> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=887&qid=119703>
> programme which seeks to build a commons for the arts in the network age.
>
>
>
> Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England through the National
> Portfolio funding programme, Haringey Council and the generosity of
> individual supporters.
>
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