Makers x Covid Paris
“We literally heard hospitals calling for help”
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Makery relays voices from fabrication spaces federated around the collective Makers x Covid Paris. They tell the story of how they mobilized and o...
Covid-19, mobilized in photos
Delivering protective gear with Makerscovid.Paris
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Capturing the moment for distributed production of personal protective equipment, photographer Quentin Chevrier followed deliveries around a cit...
Covid-Initiatives
Mapping makers worldwide mobilized against Covid-19
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Since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic, many citizens have mobilized their energy, skills and resources, organizing collective actio...
Silicon Money and the Commons
The value of virtual transactions rose from $819 billion in 2001 to a quadrillion dollars today. This exponential growth can be compared to the success of bitcoin. A good example of the potential of soc...
Olga Kisseleva
Money distorts our perception of the world
Olga Kisseleva was born in the ex-Soviet Union, grew up during the effervescence of the perestroika and lives in Paris in the age of globalization. In her video and...
Why I buy into the Cult of Dogecoin
Much soul, very emotion
Brett Scott, the author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money, explains why he uses Dogecoin, despite some people in the crypto-currency community have...
Critical Internet Economies
A Personal Chronology
With resource sharing becoming a necessity, the currencies in which this is happening are now on the radar of a growing number of geeks, artists and activists. Let’s talk about the aest...
Albertine Meunier
Keep it moving, there’s everything to see and nothing to sell
With her ironic pieces, French artist Albertine Meunier forces us to see things from a different angle, introducing a grain of sand into the well-o...
Bureau d’études
A currency should be affected by the environment in which it lives
Bureau d'études is a French artist duo formed in the late 1990s by Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt best known for their creative mapping ...
Art rewrites the history of money
The artist’s currency has no use for archaic monetary systems, financial deregulation or distorted construction value. It’s a new form of political subversion, as proven by initiatives in South America that are...