S7 E7 | Rethinking Community Building Through Crypto Rails w/aiio

Mar 1, 2024

Irina Panovich, an arts and tech experimentalist from Copenhagen and founder of 320 CoLab, joins to share her insights on community building in the crypto space. She discusses nonlinear models of support for artists and the transformative role of Web3 technologies. Exploring the essential blend of physicality, play, and experimentation, Irina highlights how community-driven values shape successful projects. Plus, she teases her upcoming podcast with UFO, aimed at innovating new forms of storytelling and cultural engagement.

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ANECDOTE

320 CoLab Origin

Irina Panovich discovered 320 CoLab, a Copenhagen arts and tech collective, through a serendipitous garage encounter.
Years later, she co-founded the experimental space with others seeking a creative outlet.

INSIGHT

Challenging Traditional Models

Panovich's thesis for 320 CoLab was to challenge traditional, fast-paced creative industry models.
She aimed to prioritize process over product and explore nonlinear value exchange among artists.

INSIGHT

The Role of Play

320 CoLab prioritized "play" as a core value, inspired by Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act."
This approach fostered imaginative, boundary-free creation, though balancing it with deadlines proved challenging.

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Irina Panovich (aka aiio) about non-linear models for cultural production, the importance of physicality and play when exploring emerging tech, and the importance of experimentation in crypto.

For the last five years, aiio has been experimenting with an arts and tech collective in Copenhagen called 320 Colab, testing out various theses relating to funding for artists and creatives. This is her first time sharing publicly on a podcast about her experiences and learnings from that experiment.

We talk a lot in this episode about experimenting in crypto, especially with community and culture, and aiio shares some key learnings and advice for building a community around foundational values and using human centered design.

She also gives us a sneak peek into a new project she’s working on right now that will be launching soon - a new podcast with UFO that she’ll be using to experiment with new forms and models for podcasting.

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LINKS

Liminal State: https://liminalstate.bandcamp.com/
UFO Ep 47: https://ufo.mirror.xyz/Pifu_UYAW7nvMVkCmLY7y84rzF9er_cuqFaRzvf6DTI
Additional reading:
- Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wrigley
- Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty and Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain by Ruth Catlow and friends
- The Archipelago Conversations by Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist
- After the Internet. Digital Networks between the Capital and the Common by Tiziana Terranova
- The Carrier Bag of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin
- The Dawn of Everything by David Græber
- Oneness v the 1% by Vandana Shiva
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- Science in Action by Bruno Latour
- Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech by https://futureartecosystems.org
- Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets by Christian Borch
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:06 How aiio got involved with 320 Colab

10:56 Non-linear frameworks for artists’ monetization

15:11 How aiio would run 320 Colab differently today

19:14 How important are in person experiences?

24:13 The importance of play in tech

27:42 Resources for community builders

30:14 How to build culture better

40:42 aiio’s new project

44:27 Will ETH/BTC reach ATH in 2024?

45:32 Follow aiio

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