[p2p-research] Fwd: 'Alternative Economy Cultures' post-script

[Michel Bauwens]

links to documentation below

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From: andrew paterson <agryfp at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Subject: 'Alternative Economy Cultures' post-script
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


The ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd &
5th, brought together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural
practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions, during
Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2009.

The seminar aimed to tackle not just the financial, but the social,
cultural, institutional, human, material, emotional and intellectual forms
of capital. Not just about individual gain, boosting, balancing or
bail-outs, but common good, peer-to-peer, shared wealth and appropriate
reward for effort involved.

The discussion-based workshop about peer-fundraising brought together
artists, researchers and business representatives interested in P2P funding
models. Focusing upon emerging practices and related topics, it also raised
the topic: Can the crowd-sourcing phenomena be applied to support
alternative cultural events in Finland?

The programme was initiated and organised by artist-researcher Andrew Gryf
Paterson (independent / www.agryfp.info / Medialab TaiK), in cooperation
with Marita Muukkonen & Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobilε (
www.perpetualmobile.org) and Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki (www.demos.fi).
We aimed to offer a new strand to the Pixelache Network discourse.

Not claiming to be any expert in the topic, the programme of speakers in the
seminar emerged from a combination of direct invitations, and peer
nominations from the social network of the organiser and associates. The
audience for the event had to be constructed also. Hence in different ways,
it was an exercise in exploring connections and developing new associations.

A cultural festival and organisation, like Pixelache, is an organised
network (www.pixelache.ac). It brings together people interested in topics
such as electronic arts; participatory cultures (and subcultures, including
the exploration of grassroot organising and networks); politics and
economics of media/technology; media literacy and engaging environmental
issues. Social, intellectual and institutional capital has gathered over the
years, but it is still based mostly on volunteer or underpaid work.  If we
were to pay everyone, nothing would have happened to begin. That is a
very-much unresolved problematic, but also strength where we support our
dreams.

In organising and cooperation, the alt.econ.cult programme aimed to
highlight peer-to-peer practice in relation to theories.  Unusually, in the
Nordic cultural festival context, the event was funded by a 'bottom-up' mix
of institutional and seed/peer-funding, where the support grew over time,
rather than being determined in advance.  For example, via small personal
donations, cultural organisations, government ministries, non-profit
political think-tanks, activist media and business companies.  We also
experimented with an online volunteer donation system, instead of seminar
tickets, and used an offline micro-donation system (Piñata).

For more info: http://2009.pixelache.ac/festival/programme/
alternative-economy-cultures/

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DOCUMENTATIONS

All the documentations (including video, audio most slides, & supporting
materials) from the Friday 3rd and Sunday 5th April events are now available
*online*.

See here:
http://2009.pixelache.ac/alternative-economy-cultures-documentations/

The videos documenting the friday event are hosted on Vimeo platform, and
the whole day is split into 7 parts. (In all cases, except the first 2
clips, speakers are bundled together in groups)

However, audio files of each presenter are also available in both .ogg and
.mp3 format,
with creative commons licenses (by-sa/by-nc-sa) applied to them.

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BUDGET

Lastly, for those who wish to dip 'under-the-money-covers' of the the
'Alt.Econ.Cult' seminar..
Or learn something about the funding methodology/practicalities (and
hopefully repeat/adapt/etc)..
Or wonder who gave to & benefited from it.. The budget is made public,
released with a creative commons license (by-nc-nd).

Download: http://2009.pixelache.ac/alteconcult/budget/
budget_170409_alt-econ-cult_pixelache09_cc-by-nc-nd.pdf
or view online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub
?key=pcJi_Y1JrRioGw54PXtgWcQ

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Feel free to share with your internets.
all the best (wishes),
,a

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andrew gryf paterson

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email: agryfp at gmail.com
skype: agryfp
locale: Helsinki, FI
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