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TECH ETHICS – WEB3 POLITICS – ART ECONOMICS

I am currently writing a loong political philosophy book on DAOs,

and a shorter one on why NFTs really matter.

[NB: The WRITING section of this website hasn’t been updated since 2020, most of what I published since is listed below, you can message me for PDFs when the texts are not available online]

**Upcoming**

(Talk) Web3 and New Operating Models: setbacks and potentialities

Oct. 27, 2023, Digital Art Zurich

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**Just published/Just happened**

(Talk) The Culture of Web3 Economies

June 26, 2023, World Knowledge Dialogue 2023, Montreux

(my presentation starts at 1:14:36)

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(Talk) S’il vous plaît, dessine-moi un NFT

June 22, 2023, ENSBA/emLyon summer school 

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(Text) [On Sarah Friend]

in Worldbuilding, exhibition catalogue, Julia Stoschek Foundation, 2023

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(Talk) De la culture des NFT aux NFT dans la culture

January 27, 2023, Artec Paris

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(Talk) The culture of tokenization 

November 21, 2022, INHA, Paris

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(Talk) From Commons to NFTs

November 12, 2022, Aksioma, Ljubljana, replay

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(Talk) Tokenization as an Art

November 9, 2022, Aalto University

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(Talk) De la culture des NFT aux NFT dans la culture

November 7, 2022, Forum Entreprendre, Bordeaux

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(Text) Les NFT servent-ils à quelque chose ?

in L’Affût, Fall 2022, Download (FR)

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(Text) Machine Yearning

in MARION, Marion Balac monograph, Fall 2022

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(Event) Culture DAOs & DAO Culture

Conference curation and moderation

Ebb.Clubb.Paris x EthCCweek, July 20, 2022

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(Text) From the Automation of Relations to the Amplification of Communities: the Rise of DAOs

in Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art,

Sternberg Press // MIT Press, Spring 2022

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(Photo: Gerrie van Noord)

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(Talk) Just DAO it: The duality of autonomy in technology and in philosophy

It’s Tech Time, nextmuseum.io, May 19, 2022

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(Talk) NFT (R)EVOLUTION

Paris Fine Arts Academy, March 1, 2022, replay (FR)

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 (Itw) Are Blockchains Alive?

a conversation with Sarah Friend

in PALM, Spring 2022

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(Text) Nascent: Global Networks for the End of Globalization

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(Text) Sarah Friend: Endgame Theory

in Spike magazine, issue #70, Jan. 2022

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 (Talk) DAOs as Works of Art

Radical Friends Summit

Jan. 21-22, 2022, Haus der Kunst, Munich, replay

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 (Talk) Distributed decision-making systems prototyped by artists

Jan. 6, 2022, 8 pm CET, Rosy DX

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 (Talk) Arta și blockchain

Nov. 22, 2021, Institut français de Roumanie, Bucarest, replay

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(Event) How Do We DAO?

October 23, 2021, as part of the Lisbon Blockchain Week

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 (Talk) The Revolution Will Be Tokenized

Oct. 18, 2021, INHA, Paris 8 University

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(Event) Why Do We DAO? 

July 24, 2021, as part of EthCC week, Paris

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(Text) Tokeniser pour mieux régner ?

Sur différents usages des blockchains dans l’art

in L’Art et l’Argent, Editions Amsterdam, June 2021 (FR)

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(PDF sur demande 🙂 TW @audelau // TG @Odd_Name)

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(Text) Ce que la tokenisation fait à l’art

in The Great Offshore, ed. RYBN, UV Editions, May 2021 (FR)

Launch event at Centre Pompidou Paris, Nov. 25, 2021, 7 pm CET

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(Radio) I talked about the NFT craze as the democratization of the financialization of art

on France Culture, on May 25, 2021 (FR)

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(Text) La révolution sera sans doute tokenisée

in Revue AS, June 2021 (FR)

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(Event) Ethics From Below: Claiming Democracy Over Digital Infrastructures

with Lilly Irani, Elisa Giardina-Papa, and Antonio Casilli

June 17, 2021, Conference curation and moderation x Gaîté Lyrique

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(Event) Technology’s Moral Debt

with Sam Lavigne, Shannon Vallor, and Antonio Casilli

May 20, 2021, Conference curation and moderation x Gaîté Lyrique

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(Event) Algorithms in Practice: From Ethics to Ethnography

with Angèle Christin, Paolo Cirio, and Antonio Casilli

March 11, 2021, Conference curation and moderation x Gaîté Lyrique

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(Event) Care-to-care (on radical care networks)

with Marina Sitrin and Cassie Thornton

Feb. 25, 2021, Conference curation and moderation x Gaîté Lyrique

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(Event) Towards a Convergence of AI Ethics

with Paolo Cirio, Anna Jobin, and Antonio Casilli

Janv. 28, 2021, Conference curation and moderation x Gaîté Lyrique

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 (Text) Munich, July 19, part 1 (about Franz Wanner’s Secret Guide)

(Text) Munich, July 19, part 2 (about Franz Wanner’s Secret Guide)

(Text) The Great Distraction: Obfuscation (about RYBN’s The Great Offshore)

in PALM, the Jeu de Paume magazine, 2021 (FR/EN)

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(Talk) Radical Tech

organized by Good in Tech / Sciences-Po Paris

with Jennifer Lyn Morone, Hugues Aubin, J.-F. Marchandise and myself on DAOs

 Dec. 9, 2020, 6 pm CET, livestreamed (FR)

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(Curating) Algotaylorism: Rage Against the Machine

Espace multimédia Gantner (FR) Dec 5, 2020 — Feb 21, 2021ProtoAffiche

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(Text) Sanela Jahić, The Statisticized Artist

Furtherfield, December 2020 (EN)

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(Text) The Return of the Dead Author

Post-Scriptum editions (PDF), Aksioma, Nov 2020 (EN+SI)

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  (Itw) A conversation with Paolo Cirio

in 02#94, Fall 2020 (EN+FR)

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(Talk) Distributed decision-making systems prototyped by artists

on the occasion of the conference Exploring Blockchain in the Cultural Sector

organized by the Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester

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(Itw) Many-Headed Hydras: DAOs in the Art World

interview with Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty

published in So-Far, Issue 3: Blockchain, Fall 2020 (EN)

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(Curating)  SIB’s by Rodrigo Azaola

as part of UNCOOL MEMORIES #2

ESAD Orleans exhibition at the Orleans Theatre

22.10_10.12.2020

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(Text) Algorithmes sur toile

 in Peinture : obsolescence déprogrammée (FR)

Published by ESAD TALM and MASC Modern and Contemporary Art Museum

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 (Text) My take on Andrej Skufca‘s exhibition in Ljubljana in 02#94 (EN+FR)

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(Talk) Value Extraction and the Workforce of the Cryptocene

on the occasion of MONEYLAB#8: Minting a fair Society

a roundtable I curated upon the invitation of Aksioma

guests: Martín Nadal & César Escudero Andaluz, Nascent,Telekommunisten, Sašo Sedlaček

Monday June 29, 5pm-7pm CET, livestreamed and replayed here, tune in!

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Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance

Get your free copy of this exciting zine! (EN)

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 (Itw) entretien avec RYBN

zerodeux.fr, 7 mai 2020 (FR)

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 (Text) Kate Crawford / Trevor Paglen

02#93, Spring 2020 (in English + French)

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(Talk) La start-up nation : un cirque sans filet

With Antonio Casilli, Silvio Lorusso and myself

La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, March 12 mars, 2020, 7pm

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 (Text) Art, Capital of the 21st Century

in the Transnational Institute State of Power 2019 report

also in Spanish!

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 (Itw) a conversation with Sylvain Darrifourcq

02#91, Fall 2019 (in French + English)

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 (Itw) ComputerGrrrls, a conversation with Marie Lechner

02#90, Summer 2019, also in French!

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 (Text) The Return of the Dead Moving Image

Commissioned by Klasse Digitale Grafik/HFBK Hamburg for ‘Casting Screens’

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 (Text) The Polyphonic History of Net Art,

An Eternal Network? 

in 02#89, March 2019, also in French!

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 (Text) Nick Koppenhagen

in 02#88, Winter 2018-19

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 (Text) Another Block in the Chain

in André Hemer, The Imagist & the Materialist

Published by Painting Diary (Vienna/Christchurch)
Designed by Studio Büttner, Berlin

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Proceeds of the BG Annual Conference

AMBIENT REVOLTS

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French translation of “Blockchain Future States”, an interview with Simon Denny by Sam Skinner published in Artists Re: Thinking the Blockchain, ed. Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner, Torque Editions & Furtherfield, 2017, Liverpool University Press.

in 02#85, Spring 2018

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