Vancouver’s 221A Launches Blockchain Digital Strategy with Cultural Research Report

VANCOUVER, BC, Could 18, 2021 /CNW/ – cultural non-profit group 221A launches its Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks (BACP) Digital Technique. The publication of its 200-page analysis report culminates two years of social, cultural and ecological analysis on the emergent know-how of the blockchain. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Technique Fund, BACP outlines a values-led technique for 221A to have interaction civil society with the problem of growing a digitally cooperative tradition, and to work in the direction of the recommoning of land, information and objects.

The free publication outlines 221A’s key positions and companions inside its digital technique, and options main commissioned papers by artwork author Rosemary Heather (Toronto); artist Julian Yi-Zhong Hou (Vancouver/Vernon, BC); artist and theorist Patricia Reed (Berlin); and important geographer Maral Sotoudehnia (Victoria, BC).

The publication is accompanied by a public events series, starting with a dwell stream launch on Could 25, 2021 at 10 AM PDT with Jesse McKee, BACP Lead Investigator and Head of Technique at 221A; Rosemary Heather, BACP Editorial Director; and Svitlana Matviyenko, Affiliate Director of Simon Fraser College’s Digital Democracy Institute.

With Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks, 221A leads the cultural, instructional and nonprofit sectors in fostering better consciousness in regards to the methods blockchain tech will problem establishments to evolve in the direction of extra collective and cooperative fashions. The know-how additionally permits creators and communities to derive far better profit from every day web use, by new means of knowledge sovereignty and rising types of peer-to-peer interplay.

Companions 221A’s BACP analysis growth benefited from key partnerships with [email protected] (Vancouver), Canada’s main blockchain educational analysis cluster; New Fashions (Berlin), pro-complexity media node; the beecoin mission (Berlin), DAO organized across the well being of city beehives; DOMA (Paris/Kyiv), non-profit housing platform cooperative; and ChinookX (Pacific Northwest), Indigenous information sovereignty and inexperienced power start-up. The Human Knowledge Commons Basis (Vancouver), helps 221A’s technique as a communications accomplice. 

About 221A Based in 2008, 221A is a non-profit charitable group that works with artists and designers to analysis and develop cultural, ecological and social infrastructure. It envisions a pluralistic society the place all folks have the means to make and entry tradition.

Associated Hyperlinks: Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks Digital Strategy Research Report  Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks Event Series

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For additional data: Jesse McKee, Head of Technique, [email protected]

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