Crypto in Motion: Crypto-economy Labs for dance-tech Creators

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

Are you an artist and interested in the blockchain? Curious about the potential of the blockchain for socio-economic design and financial innovation for your communities of practice? Would you like to explore the NFTs and decentralized finances DeFi as a creative space? Are you interested in joining a group of artists researchers exploring these questions and tools? 

If you answer yes to any of these question or you are strongly curious about Crypto, we invite you to apply to participate  in a series of 4 Online workshops/labs for artists and makers offered by MotionDAO

These lab/workshop sessions will offer foundational concepts and tools to access the blockchain economic ecosystem and explore its potential for social and financial innovation. Creative explorations of the affordances of the blockchain will be  encouraged.

The four 90 minutes sessions will introduce the participants to the fundamentals concepts and practices of Web3: blockchain, smart contracts, crypto wallets, token economies, remittances, design and emergence of value, non-fungible tokens, DeFi and DAOs.

Each session will be divided in three parts: conceptual framework, a hands on practicum and a Q&A.

We will be using the  Near Protocol.

Six hours of online mentoring will be offered by appointment.

All levels of experience with crypto and the blockchain are welcome.

Lab will be facilitated in English by Marlon Barrios Solano

DATES:

September 19th and 26th

October 17h and 24th

1:00 PM EST

Important:

• Limited to 10 participant. Leave a brief replay to this post stating your interest and motivation.
• Participants must commit to attend all sessions.
• Participants will receive 10 Near Token (NEAR protocol utility token) as incentive for attending and participation. Check current Near Token Value.
• The last session culminates with the formal invitation to join the MotionDAO and to apply for the MotionDAO/Near Creative Grants 2022(TBA).

  The labs will use Zoom, dance-tech.net and Telegram messenger app as communication tools.

Interested?

1. Join www.dance-tech.net if you are not member.
2. Leave a brief replay to this post stating your interest and motivation.

Questions and more information: marlon(at)dance-tech.net

Ruth Cathlow’s definition of the artist role in her book Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain:

“Artists are good in mediating abstractions for our perceptions through play, open exploration and supposition. They can tolerate, even relish, extended encounters with difference, contradiction, muddle and slippage between symbolic and material possibilities without rushing to usefulness or simplicity. They have a kitbag of methods and processes for revealing the practical affordances and animal spirit of a subject, medium or technology. They know that a way to get to know something that does’n yet exist is to collaborate with its possibilities and to do something/anything with it or about it. And by doing so, they materialize and shape what it will be, allowing many other people to access, approach and reach out to it with different parts of themselves:”

[mariana carranza]

Hi there! Thank you for this opportunity to learn how to use and decentralize NFTs! It is increasingly important to today's digital artists. I am very interested in learning about it and would love to participate in all 4 workshops. Greetings!

[Reyna J Perdomo]

Hi, don’t know if my previous message went through. I’m interested to learn about this. Thanks for this opportunity. Saludos!

[Qudus]

Great. Thanks for this opportunity. I’m indeed happy to join.

[Victor E Morales]

I really want to participate on this and  learn more about cryptocurrency as a way to sustain art and performance. Also I want to implement blockchain in my work, I am not sure if NFT is the right answer. I want to learn :)