Matthias Tarasiewicz

Fork-Politics in Post-Consensus Cryptoeconomics

In this forkshop, the Laboratory for Future Cryptoeconomics will identify and work on future histories of data-driven and consensus-oriented cultures by investigating the face value of blockchain narratives. Despite a history of critical debates undermining the concept, consensus...

Institutional Presentation: Journal for Research Cultures

Institutional presentation announcing the Journal for Research Cultures (JRC), a new open access journal of the Research Institute for Arts and Technology in Vienna, given with co-editor Matthias Tarasiewicz in the second Institutional Presentations session of ISEA2015 under the...

Experiments in art and value: burning Bitcoins to buy Ai Weiwei

Critical new media art is based on research-based art practice. It is both research- and process-oriented, so that the final result is not "completed" works (products) but rather process artifacts. This paper describes the artistic research and development of the art-group "Artis...