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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…

The Critical Decentralisation Cluster at Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is an area and grouping of similar minded projects, which are offering workshops and host a space to critically discuss the future of decentralisation. The cluster at 36C3 is organised by RIAT and the Monero Community. We also host other assemblies in the categories Privacy &…

Ralph Pichler is a Smart Contracts and Blockchain veteran, and co-founded one of the first Ethereum meetups worldwide in 2014. Dubbed the “Dennis Rodman of Ethereum” he became well-known in the community for being responsible for the Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork Delay, which had been identified in 2018 and which had the consequence that Ethereum…

Matthias Tarasiewicz (parasew) is a senior developer, technology consultant and research designer. He is an enthusiast for immutable and unstoppable code and an Open-Source evangelist. Focus areas: Open-Source Hardware, Web3, privacy and decentralization. Director of the RIAT Institute and CSO of RIAT Labs. Contact Matthias via GitHub or the contact form. Matthias is an enthusiast…

Overview of external mentions and texts written about RIAT Institute. Austrian Blockchain Award 2022 – participation in the jury and selection process. WKO Vienna, May 31, 2022. Beginner’s Mind #60: Astrid Woollard, Dusica Lukac, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Irénée Robin – This was 2021 – A Year in Review. Beginner’s Mind podcast on amazon music, January 2,…

RIAT Institute focuses on research, development, communication and education in the fields of cryptography, privacy technologies and the future of decentralization. To get in contact for consultancy, research and development support in Web3 & Blockchain, or advice for developers, founders (or any other topics) – please use our contact form.

Coded Cultures are novel structures of (self) organization: cultural accomplishments of new organizational forms (DAOs) in context with a transforming environment to introduce novel cultural artifacts, »distributed agency« and »nouveau collectivism«. Coded Cultures introduced novel technological cultures, to include novel forms of production and presentation. This text is part of the book “Coded Cultures: New…

Open Hardware Month is a format by OSHWA (the Open Source Hardware Association). OSHWA is calling for worldwide action in the name of Open Source Hardware. RIAT will be hosting the format “Open Hardware Dialogues”, which follows the footsteps of a RIAT publication with the name “Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware”. This publication sheds…

Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware sheds light into the motivations and different open source strategies, as well as the different levels of “openness” (openisms) in open design movements. Openism unravels the varying perspectives of key practitioners and theoreticians on the development of open hardware across the globe including Richard Stallman, Joshua Pearce, Andrew Huang,…

RIAT Essentials is a new workshop series for the improvement of business models, evaluation and validation of research-driven projects. RIAT has a long and vivid history of mentoring and developing research applications for science, science communication and technical projects in Austria and throughout Europe. In this event, RIAT introduces the series and discusses the experiences…

DATA LOAM is an exhibition in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art in London, RIAT Vienna, as well as the Master’s program Arts & Science. Data Loam is a PEEK project for the development of the arts, funded by the FWF, the Fund for the advancement/promotion of scientific…

Gained skills In this course you will learn deep technical knowledge about Ethereum. Afterwards you will know all the important terminology and concepts how the Ethereum Protocol processes transactions in depth how to work with geth and how other clients differ from it about the different ways to interact with Ethereum about the Web3 1.0…

List of materials and consumables which are in use by the labs and workgroups. RIAT consists of different labs and workgroups, which work internationally but have specific shared resources in order to function. You can support the labs by sending us machines, consumables or other things from the material lists. Please send to our postal…

In this book detailed reviews and perspectives from international artists, theorists, researchers and curators are presented and put into context with different tendencies of art, science, design and technology. Through the establishment of new creative cultures, enabled by digital media and global communication networks, new practices and ability profiles of artistic delineations and explorations are…

Abstract [Talk by Matthias Tarasiewicz] FOSH in the past years has moved away from being a small niche and has developed to a relevant movement with significant and well-known projects. Open Science Hardware offers an opt-out potential against centralisation, as visible in the Safecast Crowd Science Geiger Counter, which offered concerned people a chance to fact-check…

New configurations of cryptography, economics, network engineering, game theory and mathematics open up complex questions that require interdisciplinary rigour and engagement. We define the field of cryptoeconomics as the interdisciplinary research field of developing, understanding and implementing systems in which the interests and behaviour of the individual are sought aligned with the interests of the…

In reconfiguring the distribution of trust, new questions arise concerning the organisation of society. The accelerated pace of progress in the cryptosphere necessitates a research methodology that can accommodate the uncertainties and emerging questions that arise. Conversations on Cryptopolitics is an ongoing qualitative research project that traces the shifting cryptoeconomic landscape through a series of…

RIAT will celebrate the end of the year with a small party and a talk from Hrvoje Hiršl, moderated by Aner Barzilay It all started with industrial revolution – steam machine and conveyor belt – the progressive shortening of time, space and possibility of reaction. In digital age it came to the scale of atoms and picoseconds…

The launch of Future Cryptoeconomics – a quarterly publication that examines the global cryptoeconomic condition and its effects on culture and society.  Future Cryptoeconomics are debated and tested in almost real-time, and we have a long way to go in order to achieve ‘cryptoeconomic literacy’ and global adoption of cryptocurrency. Could anxiety  foster mass adoption of…

The event archive is currently under reconstruction. Please see the RIAT Github for events and participations. If you find something missing in the list here, please open an issue on Github or create a pull request. 2022 Events for 2022 not in archive yet 2021 Events for 2021 not in archive yet 2020 Date Description…

In this 3-day course we cover advanced patterns such as implementing state channels, delegators / proxies for upgradability and take a deeper look at debugging, optimisation and security tools. In this course we will look at: Update and governance mechanisms such as those found in ZeppelinOS or Aragon Various ways to optimize gas costs State…

This 4-day course teaches the basics of smart contract development on the Ethereum platform using Solidity and the Truffle Framework. It covers the full workflow of developing, testing and deploying contracts as well as interacting with them afterwards. In addition you will learn about common contract patterns and potential security issues. In this course you…

The RIAT Academy is aimed at preparing developers for the future crypto-era. RIAT academy provides training in the domains of blockchain, smart contract development, EVM, WASM and Rust. We are training developers to contribute to Ethereum, Monero, Polkadot and others. The RIAT Academy is a format which is aimed at developers and is taking place…

The Horizon 2020 project AXIOM laid the groundwork for the development of the first open source professional digital cinema camera that can be produced, modified and adapted by everyone. AXIOM is driven by a consortium of five organizations in three different EU countries: af inventions (Germany), University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria), Antmicro (Poland), apertus…

Artistic Technology Research was an interdisciplinary research project focusing on contemporary practices in technology-based arts. It investigated contemporary practices in (new) media arts by looking at the change of aesthetics and questioned the role of art in the age of the network society. What steam was to the industrial revolution, data processing is to the…

The science communication project Making Artistic Technology uses participatory learning strategies to communicate the contents and results of the project ‘Artistic Technology Research’ to the general public. Making Artistic Technology has a particular focus on communicating to young people and young women how they can self-learn technology by undertaking creative projects. The project “Researching Critical…

The Journal for Research Cultures is a peer-reviewed platform for the communication and presentation of strategies of experimental, transdisciplinary and artistic research practices across epistemic cultures. The journal is published annually. Approaches to how research is executed depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably, both – within and between humanities and sciences. They are the connecting…

The Future Cryptoeconomics Magazine is available via Motto Distribution Geneva, Switzerland and is part of the RIAT publications. We live in times of zero trust, a term stemming from computer security research, which is applied to all sectors and businesses. Most prominently zero trust is used in cryptoeconomic systems such as Bitcoin and other blockchain-based technologies…

Production in the 21st century works with distributed authorship and identities. Our projects are collective inquiries formed by distributing agency between humans, machines, and programs. RIAT is a research institute about “research, development, communication and education in the fields of cryptography, privacy technologies and the future of decentralization”. We have an office and lab in…

We are a laboratory for research and development in Austria (Vienna, Innsbruck), Cyprus and Germany, We are building novel PoCs and technology demonstrations with novel technologies. We are Linux and Rust enthusiasts, and we have an international network of researchers and collaborators we work with. Our projects are Web2/Web3, and we have projects on the…

Web3 (or Web 3.0) can be either a blessing or a dystopian nightmare. What defines Web3 in contrast to the existing Web 2.0 and the centralization that comes with it? Is true decentralization even possible?

Prerequisites: Smart Contract Development for Ethereum This course is targeting programmers who already have solid experience in an object-oriented programming language. In particular this means you should know: Imperative Programming the usual control-flow primitives such as if conditions, for and while loops functions and recursion common data types such as integers (signed and unsigned), booleans,…

The RIAT institute is an NGO and works in the fields of Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Open and Libre Hardware, and Coded Cultures. Our aims are to create literacy in crypto, open hardware and fringe research. You can support our mission! RIAT is organised and registered as an NGO and is operated through support from the…

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Future Cryptoeconomics #1 (Tarasiewicz, Newman, Antonopoulos, Brekke, Stark, Miyazaki, Buterin, Polat, Schuppli, Hubik). ISSN: 2617-6289  Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and Distributed Pseudonymity in Art and Research in: Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, DeGruyter, Edition Angewandte, 1st edition (June 11, 2018). ISBN-13: 978-3110525137  Forking as cultural practice: institutional…

The history of RIAT can be traced back to the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net that was established in 2003 by Matthias Tarasiewicz, Ile Cvetkoski, Karina Lackner and Michal Wlodkowski. The collective focused on artistic research at the intersection of media, arts, technology and society and was responsible for developing the Coded Cultures platform.  Coded Cultures’ goal…

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RIAT is structured in labs, and we have past and running projects. RIAT has a lab and office in Austria, and workgroups globally. Running projects (as of 2026) Please contact us if you are interested to learn more. Labs at RIAT Activities archive (2003 – 2020) RIAT Open Hardware Lab The RIAT Open Hardware Lab…

RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as method for cultural and technological advancement. RIAT Institute is a multidisciplinary research organization focused on the intersection of art, design, technology, and society. Established in…

RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as method for cultural and technological advancement. Browse the RIAT events archive for highlights and international participations from 2004 to 2026. You can contact us or…