welcome to the 0x Salon ::: event series, residency program, epistemic skunkworks

0x Salon is a collective endeavour which critically interrogates digital culture through discourse events and residencies. Since 2020, we have been hosting salons ⁠— intimate post-disciplinary discussions ⁠— on a range of conversation topics. We are conducting an ongoing, non-profit experiment in knowledge sharing and collective cultural production. Stewarded by 0x Salon team members, our community researches topics, organises events, and authors lore, critical theory, poetry, philosophy, games, theatre, and visual art. Our website principally functions as a transmedia archival space, chronicling discussions within the Salon and the resulting activities.

events digest

Helsingør (Denmark), 18th & 19th August ::: THE BLACK HOLE OF MONEY World Premiere at CLICK Festival ::: Details To Follow
Berlin, 22nd July 19h @ Trust ::: THE BLACK HOLE OF MONEY Preview & SWAN FAKE Release Event ::: Event Info
Berlin / Copenhagen / Cyberspace, Summer’22 ::: The Art of Indifference Workshops ::: Project Info
Copenhagen, 12th May’22 ::: The Art of Indifference Public Lecture :: Event Info
Berlin, Spring’22 ::: The Price of Anarchy ::: Topic Info ::: Research Archive
Berlin, Spring’22 ::: DAOcolonisation ::: Topic Info ::: Research Archive
Cyberspace, Feb’22 ::: acc/strology ::: Topic Info ::: Research Archive

news

(July’22) 22/7/22 0x Salon Recital Event ::: Trust, Berlin, 19h ::: Event Info

Please mark your diaries for something a little different to our usual programming: our next event will be IRL at Trust on Friday July 22nd at 19h onwards, and open to all. To prepare for our upcoming THE BLACK HOLE OF MONEY theatre premiere (CLICK Festival, Helsingør, Denmark, 18 & 19 August) and also celebrate the release of our SWAN FAKE radio play, we're throwing a recital event. Come to Trust for an evening with the 0x Salon 'Art of Indifference' team as we share scenes and soliloquies from both works, exploring myriad possible futures with a series of morally ambiguous characters and unreliable narrators.

(May’22) ‘The Art of Indifference’ Presentation at Art Hub Copenhagen ::: Info/Tickets

Wassim will be giving a public talk on the evening of Thursday May 12th at Art Hub Copenhagen—where the Salon is currently undertaking a residency—on the philosophical and creative underpinnings of our S+T+ARTS Repairing The Present Fellowship. Come along! More on ‘The Art of Indifference’ here.

(Apr’22) ‘DAOcolonisation’ Audio Report ::: Read More & Stream Here

We recently held a 0x Salon conversation under Chatham House Rule on the history, politics, philosophy and technology of Web3 and DAOs. This is an audio report based on that discussion. With Wassim Z. Alsindi, Alice Yuan Zhang, Laura Lotti, and Ricardo Saavedra.

(Feb’22) ‘SWAN FAKE’ Improvised Theatrics ::: Listen to a preview on SoundCloud

Over 2021, a group of salon friends made an improvised radio play entitled ‘SWAN FAKE’ . The play follows the (mis)adventures of a cast of improbable characters including new-AIge grifter Deepfake Chopra, acc/strologist Nota Bene Gesserit, the mean and regressive standard deviant Marquis de Stats, angry tweeter Noisy T. Lib, and the perfect dancer The Swan herself. The listen follows them over half an hour’s trials and tribulations as they navigate the treacherous and always uncertain Straits of Heisenberg towards the Improbable Island for an unforgettable climax at the fabled Algorithmic Theatre, where the audience struggles to tell up from DAOn.

(Mar’22) S+T+ARTS Repairing The Present Fellowship ::: Read more
(fellowship) We’re delighted to announce that 0x Salon and Wassim Z. Alsindi have jointly been awarded a S+T+ARTS Repairing The Present fellowship. We will be in residence at Art Hub Copenhagen throughout ‘22, working on a critical programme of creative and speculative works titled ‘The Art of Indifference’. More here.

(Feb’22) ‘Bitcointingency’ Article for Weird Economies ::: Read Here
As a preview of both an upcoming book project and our ‘Art of Indifference' S+T+ARTS Fellowship programme, Wassim recently wrote a rather tweaked-out piece on the idiotsyncrasies of Bitcoin and proof-of-work more generally.

(Jan’22) Berlin Art Link ‘Digital’ Feature on 0x Salon ::: Read Here
We recently did an interview on the creative side of the 0x Salon - talking GANs, memes, NFTs and some things coming up in ‘22.

(Nov’21) ‘Temporal Secessionism’ Broadcast ::: Timezone#4 Launch ::: Watch / Read
We held a discussion to launch Timezone#4, a new node in the Temporal Secessionism series by Nascent (Paul Seidler and Max Hampshire). Thanks to participants, Project Atol, ŠUM Magazine and Plaza Protocol.

Accompanying Timezone#4 Source Book PDF contains material from Wassim Alsindi, Anna Greenspan, Max Hampshire, Amy Ireland, Kei Kreutler, and Paul Seidler.