Related Utopias: Bitcoin Economies and the Art World

This week on Explain Me, William Powhida and Paddy Johnson talk with artist Kevin McCoy about Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Monegraph. This episode is your ultimate bitcoin/blockchain/monegraph explainer. 

Links: 

Monegraph

Seven on Seven, 2014

Public Key/Private Key

Reading List: 

China, Crypto-Currency, and the World Order
Tribute and Tribulations - http://wdwreview.org/desks/china-crypto-currency-and-the-world-order/
Digital Denominations - http://wdwreview.org/desks/china-crypto-currency-and-the-world-order-part-2/
Clone Wars - http://wdwreview.org/desks/china-crypto-currency-and-the-world-order-part-3/

A modern classic

Hito Steyerl - If you don’t have bread, eat Art!

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/76/69732/if-you-don-t-have-bread-eat-art-contemporary-art-and-derivative-fascisms/

 

Does Digital Culture Want to be Free?

How blockchains are transforming the economy of cultural goods

http://www.academia.edu/33838249/Does_digital_culture_want_to_be_free_How_blockchains_are_transforming_the_economy_of_cultural_goods

 

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