Gray Area: DWeb for Creators Project Salon

Join us for the DWeb for Creators Project Salon, where participants will present lightning talks on their research for the DWeb for Creators course. Participants’ work spans Cultural Memory, Community Networks, and Decentralized Tools. Projects will showcase decentralized approaches to data sovereignty, empowering communities to take ownership over their data through local-first infrastructure and peer-to-peer access. Decentralized technologies including IPFS, Blockchain, and mesh networks are explored as ways to build resilient communities that are not beholden to centralized infrastructures.

Decentralized Web (DWeb) for Creators is an 8-week online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Through lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice with emerging technologies, participants in DWeb for Creators use an intersectional lens to study the theoretical frameworks that shape the decentralized web. The course is led by a team of experienced instructors working at multiple intersections of the decentralized web. They represent the leading-edge of global organizing and studio art practices involving DWeb technologies.