Alternative Currencies, Communities, and the Marketplace - tonight, Mon. Oct 4 Meetup

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Alternative Currencies, Communities, and the Marketplace

Oct 4 Mon 6:30 PM

Location

Pulse Restaurant and Lounge

45 Rockefeller Center, 3rd Floor New York, NY , NY 10020

This is a private home or office

Who’s coming?

14 Members

Who's hosting? Leah Belsky

In collaboration with the Money Meetup NYC, join a lively panel exploring the way alternative currencies, communities, and marketplaces are used in new business models and projects. The panel brings together a striking group of entrepreneurs, creators, and technologists. We'll begin with responses to the question; "What does fake money have to do with community and exchange?" and then go on to panel discussion and questions from the audience.

We'll be opening up for drinks and conversation at 6:30, then the panel will start at 7.

Speaker Bios:

Karthik Swaminathan is the co-founder and experience designer of One Blue Dot share networks. Share networks allows user to use their online social networks to share skill and resources and goods, stimulate economic activity and build resilient communities in the real world. He has an extensive background in creating user experiences for top e-commerce sites such as J.Crew and Coach, niche social networks such as Scholastic Lesson Exchange and many mobile and emerging media platforms.

Judith Hamerman-Zeller is an advisor to Hub Culture, a network that blends both physical and virtual places. Membership benefits include network tools that help build worth, Pavilions that offer interesting new ways to work and a global currency (Ven) that powers the Hub Culture world. Judith brings a rich background in business, technology, media and entertainment to the panel. Judith began her career with Miramax Films and relocated to SF in 1995 for the launch of Web 1.0. There, she held executive stints with endemic technology publishers including CMP and IDG and well as spending seven years at Time Warner’s Business and Financial Network. During this time, she worked with both Global 500 and start up firms to help them take advantage of the most innovative communication platforms available. Additionally, Judith worked on launch product for Time Warner, including a direct to Wal-Mart consumer media product.

Paul Glover is founder of Ithaca HOURS local currency, Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP), Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, League of Un-Insured Voters (LUV), Neighborhood Enterprise SchoolTeachers (NESTS), Philadelphia Regional & Independent Stock Exchange (PRAISE), Ithaca Health Alliance, and other groups. He is editor of Green Jobs Philly News. He holds degrees in Marketing and in City Management. He has taught urban studies at Temple University. He is author of Hometown Money, Los Angeles: A History of the Future, Health Democracy, Green Jobs Philly, and other books. He is a consultant for grassroots economic development. In 1978 he walked across the United States, entirely on foot, from Boston to San Diego.
Anton Vidokle was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. His work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale, and at Tate Modern, London; Musée d’art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental - an artwork in the form of a traveling video rental store, which traveled to numerous art centers in Europe, North and South America. As a founder of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin called Unitednationsplaza—a twelve-month experimental school involving more than a hundred artists, writers, philosophers, and diverse audiences. Most currently, Vidokle is collaborating with Julieta Aranda on Time/Bank.