Archives, Artefacts and Data Marketplaces of Post-Factual Data: Future Cryptoeconomics as Data Loam

During the 2 years of the research project DATA LOAM, the Research Institute for Arts & Technology (RIAT, Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics) worked with a set of experimental and exploratory methods to tackle questions of data ownership, data politics, speculatitve design of future data archaeology and novel approaches to post-factual data. In this timeframe the residency for future cryptoeconomics (in cooperation with the MuseumsQuartier Vienna) brought 10 artists and researchers to Vienna to work and co-produce art+research projects with RIAT. The performance “Proof of Burn – Burning Money. Burning Value. Burning Trust” made cryptoeconomics tangible and demonstrated experimental economics in speculative AFK settings. The research output has further been thematized, exhibited and presented at Transmediale (Berlin), Grey Area Festival (San Francisco), Ethereum Devcon4 (Prague) and 35C3 (Leipzig). Research interviews and essays have been published in the “Future Cryptoeconomics” magazine, which is an unusual publication: it is a hybrid of a magazine, newspaper or lab notebook printed on thin paper material with rotational print technique. Future Cryptoeconomics also is an experimental system, “artistic technology” where different forms of inquiry collide. In “Future Cryptoeconomics: The Genesis Stack” the first and initial prints of the magazine (which have been held back from circulation) are inscribed in the chain of the world computer via NFT technology. This is the inaugural event and start of the *RIAT decentral archive for process artefacts* and also gets displayed in the final exhibition “Data Loam: on the future of knowledge systems and the materiality of information“.