Creative Commons Salon: Welcome to the Future of Money tour, in Oslo 6. may 2011! Free culture and free pizza to the people!

THE POINT OF DEPARTURE:

“The Future of Money” is the title of a telepresently produced Creative Commons licensed short film (07:32), in which young founders are interviewed about their projects and their view of money -- with an emphasis on social entrepreneurship and "hacking the money system" (by creating and using free and open currencies):

What are young adults thinking about money and value? How can we create new systems of wealth generation and abundance? What does the future hold for banks and other financial institutions in the wake of massive peer to peer exchange? “The Future of Money” begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation. See the short film here: http://www.emergence.cc/futureofmoney/.

The Future of Money from KS12 on Vimeo.

THE CONCEPT:

The Future of Money tour is initiated by the Cloudberry Project, a collaboration of the Nordic Creative Commons organizations.

The idea is to have a Creative Commons Salon spanning as many countries as possible in a week, as Gabriel Shalom from KS12/Emergence Collective (film maker, entrepreneur from the US) and Jay Cousins (entrepreneur in social technology, human interaction, technology trends, product hacking, open everything, disrupting technologies and systems; from the UK) they are both living in Berlin travel to all the Nordic countries and then some, joining forces with local speakers in each country.

(Here is a little trailer for the whole tour with all countries: http://vimeo.com/22903587).

TIME AND PLACE IN OSLO:

In Oslo, the Creative Commons salon is a collaboration between Creative Commons Norway and EFN and takes place on 6. may, at 19:00-22:00 in Ole Johan Dahl's house (the new informatics building). The street address is Gaustadalleen 23 B, and it takes place in seminar room "Python" (room number 2269), the northern-most room on the second floor.

NB: Please use the Northern entrance (the entrance nearest to the tram stop) to enter the building; this entrance is in the "tower" or tallest part of the building.

HOW TO GET THERE:

Official description (in Norwegian): http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/om/finn-fram/.

Picture of the building: http://folk.uio.no/thomas/ifi/ifi2.jpg.

When you arrive, please use the Northern entrance (the entrance nearest to the tram stop) to enter the building; this entrance is in the “tower” or tallest part of the building.

Here is a close-up picture of the “tower”: http://folk.uio.no/thomas/ifi/ifi2-tower.jpg.

Note the bridge (black) on the bottom of the tower which leads to the northern entrance beneath the tower. Use the entrance on your right hand side.

For any questions or assistance call Thomas Gramstad at 4817 6875.

REGISTRATION:

Attendance of the Creative Commons Salon is free and gratis, and open to everybody, but we need you to register in order to know roughly how many people will come and how many pizzas to order. Yes, the pizza is free and gratis too. Also, if you are a vegetarian, please let us know.

Sign up for the event by replying to this e-mail or send an E-mail to thomas@ifi.uio.no with Subject: “Registration CC Salon” (or “Påmelding CC Salon”).

THE PROGRAM:

19:00  Introduction by Thomas Gramstad:
       What is Creative Commons? And what is this event about? (html)
19:15  Arne Øgaard: Penger og frihet -- om bruk av penger til å
       fremme sosial og kulturell utvikling (pdf, ppt).
       (This speech will be delivered in Norwegian; there will be
       a summary in English.)
20:00  Pause + pizza
20:15  Lars Hektoen: Value-based banking (pdf, ppt).
20:45  Gabriel Shalom & Jay Cousins: The Future of Money
21:30  Discussion between audience and panel of speakers
22:00  Closing

THE SPEAKERS:

Gabriel Shalom (@gabrielshalom) is a videomusician, director and creative producer living and working in Berlin, Germany. He is the co-founder of KS12, a creative studio which produces original transmedia narratives. He is a regular contributor to opinion-leading blogs on the future of cinema and augmented reality. His signature video artwork takes the form of rhythmically edited audiovisual compositions. He has been an artist in residence at the ZKM | Karlsruhe. He has been a guest speaker on audiovisual trends in London, Berlin and São Paulo, and since Spring 2009 he is adjunct faculty at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule where he lectures on analog motion graphics.

Jay Cousins (@jaycousins) is a tinkerer, public speaker, and facilitator of group collaboration. He is one of the initiators of Open Design City, a collaborative workshop space at the Betahaus in Berlin. He helped to instigate the DMY Maker Lab and was both fellow and emcee of the Palomar5 innovation camp. In addition to his work creating and disrupting events, he has managed an international distribution and manufacturing network, and developed products from inception to market on a global scale. He's passionate about linking ideas, thoughts, people and projects.

Arne Øgaard har gjennom 10 år vært norsk redaktør i tidsskriftet Pengevirke som utgis i samarbeid mellom de etiske bankene Cultura i Norge og Merkur i Danmark. Han var allerede fra midten av 80-tallet med på det forberedende arbeidet som førte til opprettelsen av Cultura Lånesamvirke, et forstadium til Cultura Sparebank. Han var i mange år leder av forstanderskapet i Sparebanken og det tilsvarende organet i Lånesamvirket. I dag sitter han i styret i Cultura Sparebank. Han er utdannet ernæringsfysiolog og adjunkt i realfag og arbeider på Steinerskolens videregående trinn i Moss. Han er aktiv skribent og samfunnsdebattant. Han har utgitt to bøker om hyperaktive barn og tilsetningsstoffer og boka "Mennesket er usynlig mitt møte med antroposofien".

Thomas Gramstad is a freelance writer, translator and amateur musician, president of the digital civil rights organization Electronic Frontier Norway (efn.no), and works at the Informatics Library in Oslo. He is also a board member of FriBit (fribit.no) and a member of the working group of Creative Commons Norway (creativecommons.no). He is an activist for free culture and free software, publishes his work with free licenses, and contributes to many free culture projects, including Genero, Cultural pioneers, and the Nordic Creative Commons collaborative project Cloudberry, where he is project lead for Norway.

Lars Hektoen is CEO of Cultura Bank (since 2003), the only Norwegian bank in the area of value-based banking / ethical banking. He was a co-founder of the bank in 1996 and has served on the advisory board and the board of directors and as head of the bank's control committee. Lars started his career in banking and finance in 1975. Former jobs include leading the ABB Treasury Center USA Inc. and ABB Financial Services Norway as well as Manufacturers Hanover Bank (Chemical Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank) as Managing Director in charge of capital markets activities. He has a MA degree in business and economics from the University of St. Gall in Switzerland.