Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
Resources that provide background and examples of DAOs that specifically focus on arts and culture.
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Art Gallery
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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Art Sect Gallery | NFT gallery and DAO | Art Gallery | |
DistributedGallery | Distributed-gallery is a collective of artists building blockchain-based artworks since 2017 on ETH. | Art Gallery | |
MOCA - Museum of Crypto Art | M○C△ is a museum that lives in the Metaverse and exhibits art across digital worlds. | Art Gallery | |
MoCDA: Museum of Contemporary Digital Art | The Museum of Contemporary Digital Art provides digital art education and technology to artists, collectors, institutions and art lovers. | Art Gallery | |
MONA - Museum of NFT Art | M0NA is a virtual museum, located in CryptoVoxels and Decentraland, showcasing NFT collectables and art. | Art Gallery |
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Artwork
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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Jonas Lund Token | Jonas Lund Token is a distributed decentralised autonomous artistic practice that aims to optimise and streamline the decision making process in art production and the strategic decisions concerning a career path.
The JLT shareholders participate in the decision making process by casting votes on proposals and through discussions on this website. As the career path of Jonas Lund improves and his market value increases, so does the value of a Jonas Lund Token, thus allowing shareholders to profit through dividends and potential sales of the tokens.. | Artwork |
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Book
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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Building on the concept of a DAO but informed through commons-based and cooperative-based logic, feminist economics, and open value accounting | Book | ||
Radical Friends (Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, 2022) | Radical Friends – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts consolidates five years of research into a toolkit for fierce thinking, as well as for new forms of radical care and connectivity that move beyond the established systems of centralised control in the art industry and wider financial networks. | Book |
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DAO
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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AfrofutureDAO | A community-owned launchpad for africa's historical & cultural assets to launch in WEB3. | DAO | |
Art Haus DAO | Collective Arts Patronage. | DAO | |
Bright Moments | BM work with generative and AI artists to produce iconic, real world experiences of their art. | DAO | |
Decentralized Autonomous Kunstverein (DAK) | DAO art assocation | DAO | |
FingerprintsDAO | A DAO that curates and collects artworks that use smart contracts in innovative ways. | DAO | |
Friends with Benefits DAO | A DAO made up of cultural creators and maintainers using Web3 tools to build community and foster agency | DAO | |
KlimaDAO | Transparent, neutral, public infrastructure to accelerate climate finance on a global scale trough $KLIMA | DAO | |
MORROW collective | NFT curators, consultants & collectors. | DAO | |
Muse0 DAO | A DAO dedicated to creating and curating a public art collection through a process of donations from members | DAO | |
seen.haus | NFT - Physical - Curated auction house. | DAO | |
UltraDAO | An art collective building web3 products together. | DAO | |
UnicornDAO | DAO for women-identified and lgbtq+ people. | DAO |
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News & Opinions
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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7 Key Questions About How DAOs Could Actually Work for the Art Market, Answered, Artnet (May 2022) | News & Opinions | ||
A beginner’s guide to self-sovereign identity (SSI) - DomiLabs (June 2021) | An article on What is SSI, What’s the Technology Behind SSI, and the future of your Identity. | News & Opinions | |
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? | News & Opinions | |
Episode XII: NFTs: Art After Copyright? By Primavera De Filippi & Maria Riivari, Flash Art, (February 2022) | Article on copyright and NFTs, arguing that NFTs are not in fact a source of copyright infringement because the work is not stored within the NFT. They propose that hashes could be covered through copyright law to cover NFTs | News & Opinions | |
Exploring Web3 Ticketing - Friends with Benefits (July 2021) | Friends with Benefits DAO exploring ticketing | News & Opinions | |
Get a feeling of NFTs and DAOs (WAC Weekly — Dec 15th 2021) | Yes, Web3, there’s that word again. Now, what does it have to do with museums this time? | News & Opinions | |
How Might A DAO Remake Art Collecting? Salon Is About To Find Out - Jing Culture & Crypto (September 2022) | Salon represents a community of art collectors, creators, investors, and professionals which will collectively identify and acquire artworks. | News & Opinions | |
How UnicornDAO Collects, Curates, and Exhibits Work for Social Change - WAC Weekly (March 2023) | UnicornDAO’s Head of Curation Chanel Verdult talks about what the DAO does, how a DAO like this works internally, and how they’re trying to increase the share of sales going to women and non-binary artists in web3. | News & Opinions | |
Internet Policy Review (2021) | Glossary of terms in Web3 developed collectively through peer review | News & Opinions | |
Mercedes Benz Web3 Arm To Release NFT Collection With Digital Art Community Fingerprints DAO - Coindesk (May 2023) | Titled “Maschine,” the generative art collection was created by Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel and draws inspiration from automotive concepts. | News & Opinions | |
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. | News & Opinions | |
Radical Friends: How DAOs Could Change The Art World - WAC Weekly (February 2023) | A conversation with Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, editors of Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts, about what Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAOs) could do for the art world. | News & Opinions | |
Taking A Quick Dip into DAOs (WAC Weekly - Jan 12th 2022) | A few discussions on DAOs and Smart Contracts. | News & Opinions | |
The DAOWO sessions: ARTWORLD prototypes | A series of online events running from 28th January to 4th March 2021 that explores the possibilities for the future of the artworld with blockchain by investigating what can be learned from DAOs. | News & Opinions |
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Platform
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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Diverse NFT Artists | A collective that supports and nurtures diversity and inclusivity in the NFT art space. | Platform | |
Gallery of Crypto Art “GOCA” | Virtual NFT Gallery. | Platform | |
Uniswap | A network of DeFi apps and a decentralized crypto trading protocol | Platform |
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Provider
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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A2 Accelerate Art | A charitable 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to uplifting emerging artists in crypto/Web3. | Provider | |
ratDAO | a DAO aiming to buy art masterpieces collectively | Provider |
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Research Paper
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of taxation, entity formation and operational issues
pertaining to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. | Research Paper | ||
Future Art Ecosystems - Serpetine Galleries (2022) | An annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure: the systems that support art and advanced technologies as a whole, and respond to a broader societal agenda. | Research Paper | |
In this paper, the authors explore the concept of a DAO through a theoretical example using Wikipedia contributions | Research Paper | ||
Wanderer Above a Sea of FUD: Cultural Workforce, Crypto Anarchism, Intellectual Rights, and Blockchain-Based Funding Models for Culture and Arts by Maria Paula Fernandez, Stina Gustafsson, Beth McCarthy (February 2021) | Report building on the 2019 report to discuss the intersection of blockchain and art | Research Paper |
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Use Cases
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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PleasrDAO | A collective of DeFi (decentralised finance) and early NFT collectors and digital artists that acquires culturally significant pieces with a charitable twitst | Use Cases |
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Video
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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Radical Friends: DAO Summit for Decentralisation | Recording of Furtherfield’s Radical Friend DAO Summit which took place on 22nd January 2022 | Video | |
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Exhibition
| Resource | Summary | Link | Type |
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unblock. | Digital entity that seeks to make art more accessible. | Exhibition |