Seed Phrase
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Seed Phrase
Simon Denny talks with people from art, tech, and the worlds in between about their experiences and ideas around Web3.
“Seed Phrase” is a podcast about how technology, art, politics, money and power intersect – and how, through their convergence, the much-discussed Web3 could frame new spaces of possibility. The podcast is hosted by artist and THE NEW INSTITUTE fellow Simon Denny and recorded on site in Hamburg.
The podcast delves into a wide breadth of topics: how we can use technology better; how art is reflecting the challenges of the digital world; how blockchain is both a problem and a promise; how decentralization actually works; how the commons provide the framework for a different economy; and how NFTs might figure into these considerations.
Simon Denny invites one guest per episode – from tech, civic society, business, and/or art – and engages in deep and thoughtful conversations that, in the spirit of THE NEW INSTITUTE, are committed to holding open the potential for change.
Guiding the conversation is each guest’s “seed phrase” – twelve words that serve as the key to unlock an NFT – twelve words to unlock their story.
SEASON 2
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01 Terra0 on Economies Beyond the HumanTerra0 uses artistic narratives to propose post-human economies. As they put it: "On the blockchain, no one knows you’re a tree."
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02 Lee Tzu-Tung on Post-Colonial Blockchain FuturesLee Tzu-Tung’s “prolonged undercover performance art” and “bionic cryptocurrency” strive towards open-source futures on the blockchain and beyond.
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03 Mitchell F. Chan on Building BeliefIn a fluctuating market, what has staying power? Mitchell F. Chan reflects on the construction of value and art and crypto’s shared status as “receptacles of faith.”
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04 Penny Rafferty on Playing the Game of GovernancePenny Rafferty is LARPing new forms of organizing into existence. Taking up tools and processes used in the blockchain world, she aims to open wider portals of possibility.
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Mint your Seed Phrase NFT
Mint your Seed Phrase NFT
Each podcast guests picks a “Seed Phrase” to guide their conversation with Simon: a string of words that unlock their insight, just like a real seed phrase unlocks a crypto wallet. Their phrases are each made into NFTs, which are available for users to collect.
In Season 1, the NFTs were available as Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAPs) to those who attended the live recordings of each episode. For Season 2, we’re opening things up and allowing anyone, anywhere in the world, to get access. Mint an NFT of your favorite conversation – or collect all 4!
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Terra0Terra0 uses artistic narratives to propose post-human economies. As they put it: "On the blockchain, no one knows you’re a tree."
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NFT
Lee Tzu-TungLee Tzu-Tung’s “prolonged undercover performance art” and “bionic cryptocurrency” strive towards open-source futures on the blockchain and beyond.
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NFT
In a fluctuating market, what has staying power? Mitchell F. Chan reflects on the construction of value and art and crypto’s shared status as “receptacles of faith.”
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NFT
Penny Rafferty is LARPing new forms of organizing into existence. Taking up tools and processes used in the blockchain world, she aims to open wider portals of possibility.
SEASON 1
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00 Simon Denny and Georg Diez on the Perils and Potential of Web3How can we reclaim what was and is the promise of Web3 – a decentralized form of organization, granting autonomy to actors outside the control of established power structures?
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01 Wassim Alsindi on Ideology and Identity in BlockchainBlockchain technology has held numerous promises: for a better internet, for decentralization, for a critique of power – and maybe even a critique of capitalism.
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02 Jaya Klara Brekke’s Third Way of Crypto CriticismBetween false hopes and facile critique, there is an emancipatory view of emerging technologies like blockchain.
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03 Toby Shorin on the Good in CryptoBitcoin launched with lofty promises to improve the financial system in the name of the people. Fast-forward to today: most of its monetary value is concentrated among a small minority of token-holders.
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04 Decolonizing the Blockchain with Alice Yuan ZhangHow could we bring decolonial methodologies to blockchain? What is a “community-activating art practice”?
