transmediale 2018, Cryptoeconomics as Data Loam

With Jaya Klara Brekke, Andrew Newman, Martin Reinhart, SophieCarolin Wagner Moderated by Matthias Tarasiewicz This presentation features the outcomes of the workshop ForkPolitics in PostConsensus Cryptoeconomics, within the context of the project Data Loam. The shift to practiceled research in art focuses on the process of making. This parallels the move from indexicality of information to the critical intermediality of objects, facts, materials, ephemera, technology, and matter. Together, these correlations generate complex patterns that also function as generators of meaning and knowledgebut are currently inaccessible. An accessible topography is needed, which expresses the multidimensional, dynamic construction of all these correlations. Data Loam investigates new tools in practiceled research that account for the process of making and capture knowledge previously lost in the jungle of big data. The combined skill sets of the collaborating artists, philosophers, programmers, physici