I am a contributor to international online platform ArtSlant. My first article regards a public art piece by Leonard van Munster not far from where I live.
Check it out here.

[This post was originally posted on the Economies of the Commons 2 conference blog]

As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the decentralization of currencies and credit. The former began by introducing their own website, dyndy.net, an online lab providing “Tools, practices and experiences for the conceptualization, development and deployment of currency”; the latter analyzed in more detail the case of Cyclos, an open-source software providing an alternative to traditional banking systems. (more…)

[This post was originally published on the Economies of the Commons 2 conference blog]

With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about archiving. Her presentation pointed out a very important and often underestimated aspect of digital information: its long-term preservation.
As pointed out in the past by theorists like Geert Lovink (the internet, no matter what, needs and depends on an infrastructure) and Katherine Hayles (digital objects have their own materiality), Angevaare focused on the very real and tangible costs – in terms of both storage and human labor – that the prolonged maintenance of digital objects implies. Digital files are more fragile than we think, and even a missing bit can totally compromise the visualization of an image. For these reasons, as formats and supports are replaced over time, digital repositories need to keep up with technological evolution. (more…)

[This post was originally published on the Economies of the Commons 2 conference blog]

Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation – like the Aarhus University Library and the Royal Library – for many years now. Even if digital archives don’t sound as complex as theoretical atomic physics, in her presentation Christensen-Dalsgaard showed us that running them involves some pretty complicated reasoning. Starting with the premise that an archive should provide the best possible version of an object, and an appropriate context to access it, Birte and her team have worked hard on algorithms and models to lay out cost-effective strategies. (more…)