#15 The Blockchain: a potential cultural revolution ?

Largely considered as purely a form of financial tender due to the fame of its most iconic application - the bitcoin -, the blockchain actually holds the key to a world of uses beyond cryptocurrencies. This technology, deemed to be ‘revolutionary’ by numerous experts, is so multi-dimensional that it is perhaps more appropriate to talk about it in the plural. From live streaming to festival coordination and contracts, the cultural sector is one of many areas of society to be affected by blockchains, which have the potential to reinvent both economic models and uses. In various instances, cultural operators are becoming techno-activists by shaking up the systems in place and decentralising value, often to the benefit of independent artists. But to what extent can the blockchain deliver actual utopias, and how can it revolutionise a rapidly changing cultural sector? With Maxime Faget (SeaNaps festival), Tyler Tyldesley (Resonate), Xavier Lavayssière (ECAN)and Lisa Blanning (Journalist)