Seminar: Transfer Data Trust
Kelani Nichole will present on the Transfer Data Trust. The work she’s doing includes building out the legal structures for a data coop, building out Open Hardware networks that give people actual ownership over their data, distributive justice practices for co-owning and storing data, and so much more.
TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist-owned archive and cooperative value exchange network.
The Data Trust is a milestone development in TRANSFER’s decade-long journey. In 2023 we announced we’re pausing our gallery program to reflect on the distant early warnings from our artists, by establishing a decentralized archive backed by a trust holding artworks from our 85+ international exhibitions. This speculative design project is focused around building a not-for-profit cooperative trust model that integrates the perpetual purpose artist trust with cooperative organizational structures.
The experiment is backed by modern technological practices such as encryption (smart contracts) and decentralized storage to facilitate efficient management and accrue value in a new way for experimental media artists. This shift in the gallery’s operations represents an ‘Exit to Community’ inspired by the Media Economics Design Lab at the University of Boulder.
See the Transfer project here: https://transfergallery.com/about/
More about Metagov Seminar:
The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.
The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.
The seminar is planned through the #metagov-seminar channel on the Metagov Slack. Participate by joining our community.
Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4)
Location: Online. See our Research Seminars Series for meeting information
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