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About<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\u00bbPolymorphic Futures\u00ab<\/span>\r\nExploring blockchain as a tool for care, participation, and collective governance beyond markets.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBlockchain is not just a technical infrastructure: It is a site of contestation, a tool for rethinking the systems we take for granted. Not all of Web3 is about finance, nor is it only about NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). The technology is a many-headed hydra: It can power hyperextractivist ventures, or nurture commons-oriented experiments. Why, then, do we keep reducing blockchains to money? These polymorphic machines are capable of staging any social reality. Tokens could be more than currency \u2013 they can signify belonging, participation, membership, care. DAOs are not merely libertarian fantasies but can be infrastructures of governance grounded in the shared values and goals of translocal communities.\r\n\r\nThis call is an invitation to move away from blockchain\u2019s market-centric approaches, and to imagine and reimagine the technology as an agent of change. We seek artistic projects that do not simply represent, but prefigure: projects that provide the experience of building a world they would want, in preparation for a future to come. We seek rehearsals of futures worth living, prototypes of solidarity, worlds that stretch beyond the logic of scale or linear time. We are looking for imaginations of blockchain as a kin-making device, an infrastructure of critique, and a tool for speculative governance.\r\n\r\nWith this call for proposals, we raise difficult, necessary questions: How might we govern ourselves differently? What futures become possible when technology is not extractive but generative? Could art actively shape these emergent structures? We invite projects that dare to dream, to experiment, to build \u00bbas-if\u00ab worlds where blockchains serve as the structural backbone of emancipation.\r\n\r\nText: Barbara Cueto\r\n

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