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All projects moving forward, problems being solved and then we get a great gift of Bassel Safadi arriving on the scene at CC Korea Conference!

Go team Sharism!

If you are in Beijng be sure to check out Vision Forum‘s “The Invisible Generation” at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. Vision Forum has been a generous funder of the Laoban project – which will soon kick off a 3-part party series this summer (more details on this soon!).

I will be participating in this artist talk that is scheduled for today – June 8th at 4pm.

Here is some information about “The Invisible Generation”:

“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.”
~William S. Burroughs

“The Invisible Generation is an ongoing contemporary art project that appears in different guises in Beijing, Melbourne, Kiev and Shenzhen, inspired by a text by William S. Burroughs with the same title. The venues have been carefully selected due to their specific historical contexts and their perceived trajectories into the future. The project takes its starting point in performative traditions, but focuses on practices and events that cross over into other time-based activities, such as sound, film, video, literature, theatre and workshops. The project offers new situations for art and audience to meet outside of where one expects to meet an art piece or performance. The Invisible Generation allows the artists and audience to investigate how art can become a tool to shift our outlook at reality when it appears with an element of surprise.”

Just gave a nice first presentation about the Sharism project here in Seoul at Creative Commons Korea’s Open for Innovation conference.

Here is the abstract, but the slides and rapidly evolving Aiki-Framework-based website, which says much more:

Banking on Sharing
by Isaac Mao, Christopher Adams and Jon Phillips

Money is the great wheel of circulation. However, there is another instrument of commerce between women and men, pupils and mentors, the artist and her audience. It is spinning at a much faster velocity. Its the sharing economy.

This New Economy has already taken off. At its center is not capital in search of profit, but creativity in search of an outlet. In both cases the return can be just as high. This presentation charts a new concept and protocol for the Sharing Economy that you can take to the bank. Korean companies who pioneered early virtual currencies as well as new trends in global are presented as well as threats to this new economy. They come in the form of broken net-neutrality reform, cracked patent systems, and a return to the re-locked read-only economy created by so-called magical devices such as the iPad.

We will write more about ways others can participate in this project as it develops over the summer towards CNBloggercon2010 in Shanghai.