Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
Resources that provide background and examples of DAOs that specifically focus on arts and culture.
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Resource | Summary | Link | Type | Tags |
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A Legal Framework for
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations | The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of taxation, entity formation and operational issues
pertaining to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations | Paper | DAOsNews | |
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garett, Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner (2017) | A seminal book examining different themes on the potential of blockchain technology in art | Book | DAOsNFTsGovernanceCriticism | |
Buying the Constitution: The rise of DAOs in legal by Josepth Raczynski, Thomson Reuters (November 2021) | Could Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) become the model for future business structures and transform the legal industry in the process? | Article | DAOsLegalNews | |
DisCO Project | Building on the concept of a DAO but informed through commons-based and cooperative-based logic, feminist economics, and open value accounting | Example | DAOs | |
Fingerprints DAO | A DAO that curates and collects artworks that use smart contracts in innovative ways | DAO | DAOsNews | |
Friends with Benefits DAO | A DAO made up of cultural creators and maintainers using Web3 tools to build community and foster agency | DAO | DAOsNews | |
Measuring Value in the Commons-Based Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between the Commons and the Market by Primavera De Filippi & Samer Hassan (2015) | In this paper, the authors explore the concept of a DAO through a theoretical example using Wikipedia contributions | Paper | DAOsGovernanceNews | |
Moloch Ventures Whitepaper | The Moloch DAO whitepaper: Beating the Tragedy of the Commons using Decentralised Autonomous Organisations | DAO | DAOsNews | |
Muse0 DAO | A DAO dedicated to creating and curating a public art collection through a process of donations from members | DAO | DAOsNews | |
PleasrDAO | A collective of DeFi (decentralised finance) and early NFT collectors and digital artists that acquires culturally significant pieces with a charitable twitst | Example | DAOsNews | |
Quadratic Voting | Quadratic Voting (QV) is a redesigned voting method reflecting the intensity of people’s preferences in collective decisions. It greatly mitigates tyranny-of-the-majority and factional control problems. | Article | DAOs | |
Radical Friends: DAO Summit for Decentralisation | Recording of Furtherfield’s Radical Friend DAO Summit which took place on 22nd January 2022 | Video | DAOsCriticismCollectingBackgroundNews | |
Speculative Values: Between the Institution and the NFT by Rhizome (2021) | Video | DAOsGovernanceValue | ||
Terra0 | terra0 is an evolving prototype built on the Ethereum network that aims to provide automated ecosystem resilience frameworks | Artwork | DAOs | |
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon (2010) | The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places | Book | DAOsGovernanceNews |