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Even though it’s still a nascent technology, the blockchain is slowly changing the arts. It’s not only inspired artworks – it could also change the way artists work and has the potential to decentralise the money and power in the art world. In 2008, when the Global Financial Crisis was plunging the world into economic disaster, Bitcoin was invented – a decentralised, digital currency that bypassed traditional central banks. Bitcoin ran on the Blockchain – a permanent, private and open way of administering financial transactions. In the years since, a growing number of people began thinking about how blockchain technology might transform arts and culture. Now, as the world is facing a new economic crisis, how could arts, culture and civil society benefit from the blockchain? Hear from artists, curators, technologists and researchers who are using blockchain to revolutionise their way of working. This episode features Ruth Catlow, artistic director of Furtherfield, Ben Vickers, CTO at the Serpentine Galleries, and collectives from Berlin to Moscow, who form the DAOWO Global Initiative, part of the DAOWO blockchain laboratory and debate series: www.goethe.de/daowo