hi all,

i'm chibu, a founding member of future modern, an interdisciplinary worker cooperative network of artists, technologists, researchers and organizers. we deliver the liberating potential of technologies such as distributed ledgers and artificial intelligence to the masses through art, culture, service, and social justice.

our members have spent time at such institutions as caltech, uchicago, duke, berkeley, usc, ucla, bird rides, microsoft, columbia records, mad decent records, complex magazine, blackrock, ontraport, red table talks, and the los angeles department of water and power.

process

as our core operations, we:

• work and partner with with existing open-source and community-centric alternatives to the legacy platforms. For example, our musical artists distribute their catalogs through decentralized, artist-owned streaming services like Resonate and Audius

• in working with these alternative services, familiarize them to our networks, followings and communities while identifying their possible points of improvement. we further message the benefits of these alternatives to audiences via direct engagements, eg live demos, TED-style lecture / story series / podcasts, workshops, live performance events, etc

• develop programs to address these points of improvement, which bring more contributors and communities to join them, driving a virtuous cycle of adoption. when systems lack specific functions creators need, deliver the technical and product contributions needed to make those functions available; when existing systems don’t meet a need at all, build our own

read more:

• future modern wiki
• a future modern primer

projects

we have programs underway in different stages of early development in the fields of music, housing, visual arts, and more.

aeria

aeria is a novel open-source standard for content analytics and insight based on immersive, dynamic, interactive spatial visualization of music and artist data. By basing the experience around data visualization rather than black box recommendations, we make data insights accessible to everyone, putting the power of machine knowledge in the hands of every artist and empowering them to find the opportunities and connections they need to succeed.

most recently, we’ve secured a grant from upstart decentralized music streaming service Audius to add automatic tempo and key detection to their protocol. the data we acquire from them will feed our own standalone services. we've also formed a relationship with the community-owned streaming cooperative Resonate, toward partnering to create a human-led, visualized AI-augmented guided discovery experience for music browsing and listening.

view more:

• aeria wiki

• product hypothesis

• aeria journeys

• technical strategy

e-state

e-state is a truth-incentivized, crowdsourced protocol for real estate information, investment, and governance. what will start as a decentralized yelp for living spaces and landlords, we will leverage into a consensus-based mechanism for disenfranchised communities to invest and own equity in their own neighborhoods.

the goal is to give people a voice against oppressive landlords and living situations, reducing the information and therefore power asymmetry inherent in the real estate industry and giving communities bargaining power to negotiate fairer and more affordable living conditions.

e-state will establish transparency and freedom of information in housing, opening the door to revolutionary new relationships between communities and real estate. at the heart of these new relationships will lie a next phase of the protocol that issues an indivisible, or non-fungible, token against each property logged onto the network. These programmable tokens will enable frictionless, disintermediated, exotic real estate transactions at global scale, with applications to “smart” homes and more. They will eventually free long-term residents to buy fractional equity in their own neighborhoods at no minimum investment.

view more:

• e-state faq
• e-state pitch deck
• e-state prototype spec

artel

consensus content delivery tech that pays artists their fair share, while enabling old and new forms of value exchange on a global scale, is clearly the way forward for art workers, collectors and appreciators.

for these new technologies to catch on, we need artists established in the underground, independent, and / or internet art communities most in need of these more free and open mediums of exchange, and best positioned to embrace them and spread them to the broader culture, particularly black, brown, and feminized artists, to work with these technologies and get their communities comfortable and familiar with them.

to that end, we've begun artel, a cooperative of highly accomplished DIY artists across music, visual arts, design, film, video games and other mediums to showcase and exchange their work through consensus technologies and applications.

this initiative is in its early stages, but we've started showcasing our works on social media and blogging sites across the monetized web. we want introduce ourselves to the consensus art world toward printing and selling non-fungible tokens tied to our artworks

view more:

• cent
  

• steem
  

• audius
  

• cinnamon