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Furtherfield is an art gallery that’s been uniquely located in the heart
<a href="https://www.furtherfield.org/"> Furtherfield</a> is an art gallery that’s been uniquely located in the heart
of North London’s Finsbury Park since 2011. When COVID made its indoor
space unmanageable, the Furtherfield team took it as an opportunity to
reset its relationship with the Finsbury community. As a result, they
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Formed in response to the celebrity and commercialization of London’s
YBA scene in the 90’s, for almost three decades Furtherfield has
Formed in response to the celebrity and commercialization of <a href=" https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/y/young-british-artists-ybas"> London’s
YBA scene</a> in the 90’s, for almost three decades Furtherfield has
embodied the grassroots DIY culture of the early internet for artists.
Even though the pandemic was the catalyst for CultureStake, the team had
been ready to make a change. “We had a growing feeling that bringing art
from our international network into this public space was us bestowing
‘good culture’ on a locality, and we were becoming increasingly
uncomfortable with it,” co-founder Ruth Catlow explains. “We wanted to
uncomfortable with it,” co-founder <a href= "https://ruthcatlow.net/"> Ruth Catlow </a> explains. “We wanted to
work more with the different communities that used this space to see how
they might shape our programs and our organization, and realized we
could ask them directly about what was important to them.”
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As longtime followers of open source and peer-to-peer technologies, and
as explorers of how emerging tech impacts society, the Furtherfield team
knew they wanted to incorporate two specific decentralized tools into
CultureStake:
<a href="https://www.furtherfield.org/culturestake/"> CultureStake</a>:
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For CultureStake’s first iteration, Furtherfield commissioned artist and
developer Sarah Friend and later brought in fellow co-op Common
Knowledge to work on its design and frontend. But when it came to the
developer <a href="https://isthisa.com/"> Sarah Friend</a> and later brought in fellow co-op <a href= "https://commonknowledge.coop/practices/" Common
Knowledge </a> to work on its design and frontend. But when it came to the
more challenging backend work of connecting the app to the blockchain,
both Sarah and the firm recommended Hypha. At first, Furtherfield was
nervous about handing the project to a new partner. Says Ruth, ”We were
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As Furtherfield “turned the gallery inside out,” bringing art from the
gallery to the park, they used CultureStake to cede creative control to
the people. Calling the project People’s Park Plinth, Furtherfield
the people. Calling the project <a href="https://www.furtherfield.org/peoples-park-plinth/"> People’s Park Plinth </a>, Furtherfield
commissioned a series of small extended reality artworks. Finsbury’s
50,000 visitors a week could then use CultureStake to scan QR codes and
view the works throughout the park. They then could use CultureStake to
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“Testing all the promises of democratization in the blockchain space
against reality” was something Ruth had been wanting to do ever since
Furtherfield board member Rhea Myers started “issuing provocations on
Furtherfield board member <a href="https://rhea.art/"> Rhea Myers</a> started “issuing provocations on
decentralized autonomous organizations that were impossible to ignore,
long before the NFT boom.” To her, blockchain may not be essential to
making cultural democracy happen. But Ruth feels it’s important to keep
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