MotionDAO

From Digital Social Network to a Crypto-cooperative System

“You can think...tokens are to the Web 3.0 what websites were in the early days of the World Wide Web. If You think of the history of the internet, the Web 1.0 in the 90s revolutionized information, which is why we called it the information data highway. The Web 2.0 revolutionized interactions: it provides internet platforms that were bidirectional, but they are centrally owned. And the Web 3.0 revolutionizes value exchange. And the core of the Web 3.0 is blockchain networks, and the killer application is the token”.

Shermin Voshmgir in the smartphone  documentary Trust in the Blockchain Society

Art is, after all, practical philosophy n as media art pioneer Shu Lea Cheang has noted: “Money, Value, monetary exchange...these concepts have  been excluded from the field of new media, as if the internet and net art were emancipated from these issues, living not on love and fresh water but o silicon an bits, living in an utopia of collective intelligence detached from economic constraints. Accordingly...interventions into established currency systems by citizens, artists and cultural workers could provide a source for new thinking and potentially create an ecology of value and values in which art and artists would play a central role.”             

Ruth Catlow in Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain

We need to build an economy and an Internet that works for all. How can we take lessons from the long and exciting history of cooperatives and bring them into the digital age?

John Duda at “Platform Cooperativism: The Internet, Ownership, Democracy”

How Like  Network of VALUE?

Trailer - Trust in the Blockchain Society from Trust in the Blockchain Society on Vimeo.

GUIDING RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

What if  members of a global digital  social network have their own cryptocurrency? What if they can express value and appreciation of their work and participation with a cryptocurrency?  Can we explore the innovation potential of blockchain technology  to develop a sustainable economy within the international digital  arts community? How can we use cryptoeconomic frameworks to question and inquire the fundamental architecture, dynamics and ethics of contemporary economic systems? Can a global social network be used as a creative  and emergent system of economic innovation?Can we move from a model of centralized ownership to cooperative ownership and and decentralized governance (crypto-cooperative) ?

Guided by these fundamental questions, MotionDAO, is a social innovation/art research project that uses a crypto economic and token design frameworks as a way of exploring new ownership, governance and economic design in order to transfer ownership and authority to the community members. 

This implies, among other tactics, the minting of  $MOTION, a cryptocurrency  for dance-tech.net and movimiento.org members allowing them to express and exchange value using blockchain technology and the creation of a DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization.

The development of this vision and technological adoption changes is leveraged by Blockchain education and on-boarding sessions in tandem with the  token distribution and new governance platforms.

First open educational event on June is supported by Artists Commons (Belgium).

The following video inspired the questions: If cryptocurrencies are "programmable money", can money be ethical?

Based on fundamentals aspects of crypto-economic design,  these are the envisioned project nodes for our community value flows:

Digital community of Practice:

Continuous development and maintenance of the digital social networks platforms www.dance-tech.net, movimiento.org  and dance-tech.tv as the fundamental  collaborative spaces  and architecture of the ecosystem of knowledge co-creation  and exchange.

$MOTION

A Digital Currency (ERC20 token)

SMOTION is a cryptocurrency for dancers, dance lovers, performers, artists, creators, innovators, technologists, movers and shakers of embodied arts/somatics  and other time-based artistic expressions.  It embodies, a collaborative and democratic ethos,  the value of movement arts, the primacy of movement and the vital contribution of arts to culture development and knowledge production,

It is envisioned to become an important social currency supporting exchanges of value between dance-tech.net and movimiento.org members, nodes and hubs of the international contemporary experimental, performance dance and digital arts such as festivals, art schools, art and research centers,and the like.

$MOTION is an ERC-20 token running on the Ethereum network.

$MOTION main distribution and communication architectures  are the digital social networks dance-tech.net and movimiento,org

Token Distribution Strategy:

In order to receive MOTION,  you need to be a member of any of these digital communities or participate in MOTION educational activities.

In that sense. the MOTION token is aimed to become a social currency of the online communities; yet as a is a fully exchangeable crypto token, it can be owned  and traded outside the dance-tech and movimiento.org ecosystem, possibly creating network effects impacting its emergent value.

HOW to get $MOTION?

1.-Update your profile on dance-tech.net before December 2021  and you can claim 500 MOTIONS.  Airdrops will start  March 24th 2021.

2.-Participation on monthly LIVE educational and on-boarding sessions. 500 MOTIONS (to be announced)

April 2021

3.-Apply for a year of Monthly airdrops of 1000$ per month as an active contributor to the network: an experiment in Basic Universal Income in MOTION BUI in MOTION. 

September 2021

4.-Apply for ART+$MOTIONS Grants:  providing  artists with MOTION$ and crypto-economic education for its deployment in arts  and research projects.

May 2021

5.-Partnership and collaborations with institutions such as festivals,  education institutions and research centers./art spaces.

August 2021

$MOTION WALLET

MOTION Crypto Wallet  runs on the social money platform Roll to hold and manage.

You may use Meta-mask or any other ethereum non-custodial wallets.

$MOTION NFT MarketPlace

Unlock the potential of the NFT (Non-fungible tokens) technology  for the market of art/performance digital content distribution and  authorship, ownership, education certification and the potential Integration to the $MOTION token 

July 2021

MotionDAO

Evolving towards the creation of a  Decentralized Autonomous Organization a way to  transfer ownership and authority to the community members using the frameworks of Platform Cooperativism and Exit to Community.

Variant Funds

September 2021

MOTION_DeFi 

Explore the potential of decentralized finance protocols for liquidity and economic creativity. 

December 2021

Leading Team:

Marlon Barrios Solano (USA)

Jeanne Bloch ( France)

Stef Maul (Belgium)

Lenara Verle (Germany)

Rachel Boggia (USA)

ARTIST AND THE BLOCKCHAIN

DADA ART and CRYPTO WEBSITE