The Culture & Technology podcast 024 | October 16, 2024
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Penny Rafferty: New Forms of Organisation and Decision Making
As the co-initiator of Black Swan DAO and Omsk Social Club, two independent art collectives that experiment with new forms of organizing and funding art and cultural production, Penny explores the real-world impact of decentralized autonomous organizations (in short, DAOs) on the art world and culture at large.
Penny Rafferty is an independent writer and theorist based in Berlin. Together with Ruth Catlow she edited and published “Radical Friends: How DAOs Could Change the Art World” in 2022, a seminal book that explored the potential of decentralized autonomous organizations through essays by leading voices in the NFT, crypto-art and web3 spaces.
Now that the initial hype around DAOs has cooled off, Penny and Severin took the opportunity to meet in Penny’s Berlin studio to discuss what worked, what didn’t and what’s next for using blockchains and other emergent technologies as a tool for radical imagination.
GUESTS
Penny Rafferty (she, her) is an independent writer and theorist based in Berlin, Germany, where she co-initiated the art collectives Omsk Social Club and Black Swan DAO. Her work stands for a social, collaborative, and open-ended, unpredictable approach to technology and advocates for putting culture before structures.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations & the Arts http://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/
Furtherfield brings together art + tech for eco-social change. https://www.furtherfield.org/
Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralised approaches to art making. https://blackswan.support/
Omsk Social Club is a radical experiment at the intersection of art, politics, and life. https://www.omsksocial.club/
CREDITS
The Culture & Technology Podcast is a long-form interview podcast produced by the Vienna Business Agency @wirtschaftsagentur_wien that aims to establish a long-term perspective on the ways emerging technologies impact cultural production.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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