Using blockchain to make the artworlds we want with Furtherfield

For this week's interview I spoke with Ruth Catlow,  Artistic Director at Furtherfield (@furtherfield), a not-for-profit international community hub for arts, technology and social change founded with Marc Garrett in London, in 1996. Co-editor of Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain ,Director of DECAL (Decentralised Arts Lab), a Furtherfield initiative which exists to mobilise research and development by leading artists, using blockchain and web 3.0 technologies for fairer, more dynamic and connected cultural ecologies and economies.

During the interview we spoke about  how art has evolved with technology over the previous decades especially with the rise of the internet,  Furtherfield's history with digital art in the early internet,  their recent artistic experiments with blockchain, and Ruth's thoughts on the rise of NFTs.

Sources
Furtherfield Site
DAOWO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation With Others)- The blockchain laboratory and debate series for reinventing the arts
DECAL - The Decentralised Arts Lab
Culture Stake

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