Online-Seminar CRYPTOPIAS: CRYPTO CULTURES, CONTEMPORARY ART, AND VISIONS OF POSSIBLE FUTURES by Habib William Kherbek

November 09 – 30, 2021
with 4 live online sessions on November 09, 16, 23 & 30, 2021, each day from 4 – 6 pm

Many thanks to the writer, critic & artist Habib William Kherbek for his online seminar CRYPTOPIAS: CRYPTO CULTURES, CONTEMPORARY ART, AND VISIONS OF POSSIBLE FUTURES and discussing the contributions of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.

“This course considers the evolving future of crypto cultures within contemporary art, paying particular attention to the advance of blockchain technology as a means of both securing artistic value and as a creative medium in its own right.

The advance of ‘crypto cultures’, shaped in part by crypto currency trading and discourse but also via message boards and other web-based community fora, is increasingly a feature of the contemporary art agenda. The course will enable participants to develop a vocabulary for participating in and understanding these subcultures within contemporary art, and the critical skills to consider the ways in which crypto culture is changing society, often with minimal input from those outside highly specialised fields. The course will integrate sources from the worlds of economics, finance, philosophy, contemporary art, ecology, critical theory, and  journalism. Participants need no specialised background in any of these fields, though familiarity with any or all of the fields will be a plus for in-class discussions.

The aim of the course is to allow participants the capacity to reflect on the ways crypto-cultures are changing contemporary art, and where, how, and for whose benefits these changes are being made. The recent boom in NFT markets (and subsequent bust, and subsequent mini-boom) will also be discussed in some detail. The course will consist of four sessions each dedicated to different topics within crypto cultures.” (Text by courtesy of Habib William Kherbek​)

More information on the Habib William Kherbek Instagram Account.