2023/10/13

Tina Rivers Ryan Reminds Us That Trust Is Not Just a Matter of Technological Protocols

“In the end, we need to ask more of museums and we need to ask more of DAOs (and of emerging technologies more broadly). For either to earn our trust, they need to continually define their terms and defend their motives.”
– Buffalo AKG Art Museum curator Tina Rivers Ryan, questioning the rhetoric of decentralization. “Trust is not simply the product of technological protocols (no matter how transparent),” she writes in her essay for HEK’s Algorithmic Imaginary, “but also of a ‘social layer’ of legal and professional codes and specialized knowledge bases.”
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