Digital Cash

The explosion of the internet and mobile phones, as well as other rapid technological developments, has significantly influenced momentous changes in the payments market. Perceived as being more efficient and less expensive, electronic payments pave the way for the development of more sophisticated digital services in both the public and the private sector. This article provides an overview of electronic payment systems and their relation to recent developments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It summarizes existing card-based stored-value-payment initiatives in the UAE and presents the current identity management infrastructure in the country as a potential enabler to support the development of a more comprehensive national electronic payment system.

Today, one of the most important reasons for the pervasiveness of digital currencies is the unique benefits it provides to users, which can be attributed
to the speed and efficiency of payments, especially overseas payments. This study aimed to provide a multiple infrastructure model for bitcoin use. This
research has been done qualitatively using interview tools. The survey community consists of academic experts including Profesor universitarios specializing
in the fields of digital currencies, e-commerce, international finance and finance, and empirical experts consisting of managers and experts of monetary
and financial organizations (banks, stock exchanges). The selection of samples is saturated and purposeful. Finally, 18 people were selected to answer
the interview questions. Data analysis was performed with the context theory (GT) approach. Based on the obtained results, 6 main networks, 14 main
components and 77 sub-components were obtained as multiple infrastructures for bitcoin use. The results also showed that economic and social infrastructure
can affect the use of bitcoin. If there is funding to buy the necessary devices and welcome bitcoin in the community, bitcoin will be more usable as a
digital and acceptable currency.

In this paper, a novel Blind Signature Scheme (BSS) based on Nyberg-Rueppel Signature Scheme (NRSS) using Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) has been proposed. Blind signature allows a requester to obtain signature from a signer on any document, in such a ...

[Making.Artistic.Technology] 'Faceless Value: Mobile Laboratory for the New Aesthetic of Digital Exchanges'

Faceless Value is an open and mobile laboratory that is investigating the invisible iconographies of digital exchange. The central question that motivates the research addresses the capacity of digital technologies to signify and communicate economic value and their influence on our understanding of this concept.

Thursday, 29 October
18:00 Welcome and Introduction
18:30 Soft(ware) Value; a historical analysis of the present, Georgios Papadopoulos & Matthias Tarasiewicz
A short history of digital currencies from their first incarnations in videogames and programming to DigiCash, Bitcoin and Ethereum.
19:30 Drinks

Friday, 30 October
18:00–20:00 Workshop: Post-digital Numismatics
The aim of the workshop is to sample from different economic media and interfaces, including alt-coins, e-banking portals, paywalls, credit card websites, private and public corporate logos. The output of the workshop will be presented to the public on the closing event.

Saturday, 31 October
11:00–18:00 Workshop: Post-digital Numismatics Continued
18:30–19:00 Presentation of the output of the workshop
19:00–19:30 Performance Lecture Economic Picnolepsy: Value Aesthetics and the Disappearance of Money, Georgios Papadopoulos
The performance lecture tries to capture the epileptic state of consciousness (described as picnolepsy by Paul Virilio) produced by the speed of circulation of economic value in electronic networks and automated financial *transactions*.
20:00 Reception Money-Music Extravaganza
Faceless Value will come to a highpoint with a money-themed party. The results of the workshop will be ready for viewing. Everybody is welcome to participate and experience the fever of the acceleration of the **circulation** of money. If it’s good for the economy, it’s good for everybody and for the Art too.

All the events are __open__ to everyone, but for _the_ better planning of the workshop, participants are kindly asked (but not required) to register in advance here: http://goo.gl/forms/XvF6Bkz16g

Georgios Papadopoulos is a theorist that combines economics, aesthetics and philosophy with an exploratory artistic practice. His research gravitates around money and he has published three books and many articles on the subject. In 2012 he received the Vilém Flusser Award for Artistic Research from the transmediale festival. Georgios Papadopoulos is in residence at HIAP during October and November 2015 and he is participating in the project Skills of Economy, curated by Jussi Koitela (www.skillsofeconomy.com).

Matthias Tarasiewicz founded the CODED CULTURES initiative (media arts festival and research platform) and is active as curator, researcher and technology theorist since the last millenium. Deeply involved in coding and decoding (both literally and theoretically) he researches in the fields of artistic technologies, experimental documentation and cryptocurrencies.

HIAP Gallery Augusta/Project Space
Suomenlinna B 28/2
00190 Helsinki

Building no 33 on the Suomenlinna map
http://frantic.s3.amazonaws.com/suomenlinna/2015/09/kartta_en.pdf

This workshop is part of "Making Artistic Technology", in cooperation with Artistic Technology Research and Artistic Bokeh