Project title: IncubadoraPT DAO
One-liner: purpose: to onboard artists and curators, developers and creatives of all areas of expertise to form and implement workshops, online artistic residencies and collaborations.
Project DAO: Metagov DAO 1
Challenge area: “Decentralized governance through the use of NEAR” , “Experiment with PolicyKit and the Metagov Prototype”.
Project members
(jmm.near)
(samiasns.near)
(frnvpr.near)
(rebecca.near)
target: incubadorapt.sputnikdao.near
Project Presentation: IncubadoraPT DAO Roadmap by fred neves on Prezi Design
Project summary
IncubadoraPT DAO (incubadorapt.sputnikdao.near) aims to create a laboratory for experimentation in arts + technology. It will be a platform to promote the collaboration between artists, academics, curators, creatives and cultural practitioners. Due to the increasing precarisation of the cultural sector and artistic labour, we intend to ideate emancipatory solutions and help reshape the traditional art ecosystem using blockchain and DeFi purposes.
What we want to do:
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create an artist-run digital space
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create a platform in which artists and developers from the Portuguese-speaking world can propose new ideas, meet and collaborate. Build a community around the NEAR ecosystem, where everyone can have a voice.
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organize events, workshops, talks and online art residencies with mentorship, connecting curators/researchers and artists.
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create opportunities for emerging artists and cultural practitioners.
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operate as a gateway for Portuguese-speaker artists to enter the NEAR community, helping to clarify questions and possible difficulties.
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connect with other DAOs to implement solutions
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connect with other physical projects and spaces in order to organize physical events.
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recruit talent through institutional connections (universities, observatories, research institutes, other ‘mainstream’ art organizations) and bring them to the NEAR ecosystem.
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research, experiment and implement news ways of organizing artistic expressions, collaborative efforts and financial rewards for participation, enrollment, and creation of artistic endeavours.
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promote collaboration between artists and DApp developers.
In order to:
- lay the foundations for spontaneous group collaborations between artists, researchers, curators, creatives and cultural practitioners.
- finding new ways of working and being paid for said work and respond to the increasing precarisation of cultural labour.
- help unfranchised artists bypass traditional institutions and find peers to collaborate with.
This DAO has currently 4 projects being developed:
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an online artistic residence focused on VR and how can it enhance the work of non-VR artists. (link)
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a website for VR related content, such as video, curatorial texts and any relevant content (something like Netflix on a small scale, or Ubuweb) (link)
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an online platform for writers from the portuguese-speaking world, where they can meet, collaborate, create NFT’s, attend workshops and make creative proposals (link)
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a video portrait NFT series featuring emigrants, political refugees, and other people strongly connected with political topics. (link)
Since we plan to move forward with all this projects (which will be developed by incoming members of our community), we need to implement an economic model to integrate these projects and all other who might be proposed in the future.
Therefore, we propose the following technical challenge:
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create a DAO governance app, which will regulate all existing proposals and payouts, as well as any proposal to be made in the future by any member of the ecossystem.
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use the NEAR token in all financial transactions.
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establish a social token to allow members of the DAO to vote on new proposals; we want to reward usage, engagement and openness.
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explore how SputnikDAO can be used to regulate and automate an entire ecosystem of creatives and manage intra-DAO proposals, as well as and inter-DAO collaboration.
(We are looking for help on this, come join us!) 
Additional sections
The Council:
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Juliana Matsumura: Visual artist born in Sao Paulo, 1993. Lives and works in Lisbon collaborating with Arroz Estúdios as Social Media Assistant and Studio Manager. She graduated in Drawing at Ar.Co School and has attended Fashion Degree at University of Sao Paulo. The artist is a member of the art collective Risco Coletivo and she is also part of the contemporary art group Now.Here Lisboa. Selected exhibitions: Memories of Water - Quantos a4 cabem no Áquatro - curated by Coletivo Tarimba, Barreiro (2020); GRÃO –AiR at Antiga Capitania de Aveiro (2020); Mostra Jovens Criadores 2018 at NOVA SBE, Carcavelos (2019); Evocatório at MUTE gallery, Lisbon (2018); Platform for Emerging Arts #18 at Leyden Gallery, London (2018) and Encontros do Olhar at Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo (2016).
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Frederico Parreira: Writer born in Lisbon, 1986. Lives and works in Lisbon. He studied Multimedia at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social (Escs), Cinema at Universidade Lusófona and Literature at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In the beginning of his career worked in cinema as a cinematographer and director. His first short-film. Caímos Juntos, was selected for the festivals IndieLisboa 2013 and Curtas de Vila do Conde 2013. Since then has worked primarily as a writer and script-doctor, collaborating both in short and feature films, for example with TerraTreme filmes. In 2017 was awarded a literature scholarship from the CNC-Centro Nacional de Cultura. He is a late but enthusiastic crypto adopter.
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Sâmia Siqueira: Sâmia Siqueira holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies at ISCTE- IUL and graduated in Museology at Brasília University. Her research is based on the study of possible relationships between new technologies, museums and Art. She has experience in working with museums, with emphasis on cataloguing collections, preventive conservation and setting up exhibitions. She has worked as a museologist in several Brazilian institutions such as Casa da Memória da Arte Brasileira, Galeria de Arte do Banco Central, Museu Vivo da Memória Candanga, among other spaces. Currently she participates in the European project Migrantour with the Associação Renovar a Mouraria and also works with the Coletivo Tarimba. Coletivo Tarimba is an art collective founded in Lisbon, in 2018, by eight women working in the arts and humanities. Tarimba was born from a desire to promote the work of young artists internationally and within the Portuguese contemporary art scene - curators, collectors and researchers. Without their own space, Tarimba works in partnership with alternative and institutional venues to promote exhibitions. Besides that, the collective has a social program to include the local community in their activities.
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Rebecca Hallquist (she/her): A recent MBA ('21) and arts manager/event marketer, Rebecca lives and works outside of Toronto, Canada. A former dancer and musical theatre kid, Rebecca has worked in arts not-for-profits for the past five years - most recently at the Toronto International Festival of Authors - and in May 2021 made the shift to the crypto space with her current position as Community OS Specialist at NEAR. She is currently fascinated by exploring and developing new ways to get and keep creatives on-chain, and supporting global artists through crypto and innovative governance & economic structures.
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Event Inspiration:
(Furtherfield + Goethe Institut + Serpentine Galleries)
Traditional Art Institutions + Technology platforms:
Blockchain + ART
Furtherfield
New Media Community
Feral File
