Penny Rafferty: New Forms of Organisation and Decision Making

The potential of DAOs in artistic and cultural practices

For this season’s final episode of The Culture and Technology podcast we are joined by Penny Rafferty to re-think the ways we organize ourselves.

Now that the initial hype around DAOs has cooled off, Penny and Severin took the opportunity to meet in Penny’s Berlin studio to discuss what worked, what didn’t and what’s next for using blockchains and other emergent technologies as a tool for radical imagination.

GUEST

Penny Rafferty (she, her) is an independent writer and theorist based in Berlin, Germany, where she co-initiated the art collectives Omsk Social Club and Black Swan DAO. Her work stands for a social, collaborative, and open-ended, unpredictable approach to technology and advocates for putting culture before structures.

HOST

Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.

IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT

• Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations & the Arts http://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/
• Furtherfield brings together art + tech for eco-social change. https://www.furtherfield.org/
• Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralised approaches to art making. https://blackswan.support/
• Omsk Social Club is a radical experiment at the intersection of art, politics, and life. https://omsksocial.club/

CREDITS The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at. Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf

Theme Music by Hell Mutang.