Cowebs That Connect Us : Sarah Friend on Nuanced Trust in Decentralized Web — Midterm Conference, Innovation Lab

La Plateforme is pleased to invite to the second online conference of InnovationLab#2: Building Social Networks of Tomorrow, in partnership with Project Liberty.

InnovationLab#2 at la Plateforme looks at today’s social media, imagines and explores near-future alternatives aimed at specific small communities, to define use cases and build functional prototypes.

To mark a midway point in the currently ongoing programme, La Plateforme will invite blockchain artist and software developer Sarah Friend to talk about social graph and the notion of nuanced trust in decentralised systems and social media more broadly.

About Sarah Friend

Sarah Friend (DE/CA) is an artist and software engineer, specializing in blockchain and the P2P (peer-to-peer) web. She is a participant of the Berlin Program for Artists, co-founder and co-curator of Ender Gallery (an artist residency taking place inside the game Minecraft), alumni of Recurse Centre — a retreat for programmers — and an organizer of Our Networks, a conference on all aspects of the distributed web. Recently, she has exhibited work at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Canada, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Oökultur in Linz in Austria, Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne, suns.works in Zurich, and Floating University in Berlin.