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Work

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on-going
2021
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CSO at Nym technologies
Nym is a decentralised, incentivesed privacy system that protects communication patterns across the entire internet.
on-going
2019
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2020
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Political economies of blockchain technology. Durham University Geography Dept.
on-going
2014
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2015
Research and design: D-CENT
Decentralised Citizen Engagement Technologies, European Commission FP7 / NESTA
on-going
2012
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2016
Digital strategy: MayDay Rooms
Cultural centre and archive for histories of social movements, marginalised groups and experimental culture, London.
on-going
2011
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2012
Project director and curator: Flesh & Concrete
Apexart, Mexico City
on-going
201
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2014
Research, design and tech infrastructure: City at a Time of Crisis, Athens
on-going
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2013
Digital production consultant: Common Practice Video Network
AHRC, Digital video production and training initiative for the arts sector in London, UK

Keynotes & panels

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on-going
2025
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The New New World (dis)order - Global Art Forum
'The New New Normal' Global Art Forum in Dubai, commissioned by Shumon Basar and Curators Y7 (Hannah Cobb and Declan Colquitt)
on-going
2024
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Nervous Systems - Institute of Contemporary Art
Systems at the Brink: presentations and discussion with Jaya Klara Brekke, Wassim Alsindi, Georgina Voss, Shumon Basar and Ann Pettifor chaired by Susanna Davies-Crook
on-going
2022
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Data dashboards and Sovereignty fireside with Francesca Bria - New Institute
Fireside discussion between Jaya Brekke and Francesca Bria on Data and Sovereignty at The New Institute, Hamburg
on-going
2022
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Tackling Surveillance and Its Business Model Through Decentralisation - Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference
CPDP panel on decentralized infrastructure as a means to defeat mass surveillance with Chelsea Manning, Claudia Diaz, Renata Avila and Carissa Veliz
on-going
2021
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Contentious visibilities in cloud geographies - IKA Lecture Series
Keynote by Jaya Brekke at IKA Vienna Art Academy 2021
on-going
2020
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The ‘insensible’: ghosts in machines and the paranoias beyond - Architecture Association
Talk at the Architecture Association, London on invitation by Jelena Viskovic, Ana Maria Nicolaescu and Shumon Basar
on-going
2020
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Dime & Punishment – Cryptoeconomics as an 'art of government'? - Weizenbaum Institute
Panel on cryptoeconomics hosted by Future Histories (Jan Groos) with Martin Koeppelman and Benjamin Seibel at the Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin
on-going
2019
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Authority, Autonomy and Trust: A Political History of Blockchain - Onassis Cultural Centre
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

Advisory roles

2018
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2022
European Commission
expert advisor on blockchain and distributed technologies.
2017
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2019
DECODE (Decentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem)
Coordinator scienti fic advisory board, European Commission, Horizon2020 / NESTA

Awards & grants

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2019
Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship Award
£97,282
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2019
European Commission, Next Generation Internet Ledger Award
€150,000
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Teaching & course material

on-going
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2016
Camberwell College of Arts
Unit 5: The Expanded Designer, course convener: Animism and power
on-going
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2016
B9Lab, blockchain training and educational company
Ethical training module for blockchain developers, online course material
on-going
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2018
The New Centre for Research and Practice
8-week seminar on the political economies of blockchain titled: Disassembling the Trust Machine
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Education

2014
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2019
PhD Geography
Disassembling the Trust Machine, three cuts on the political matter of blockchain, Durham University, UK
2008
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2010
MSc Contemporary Urbanism
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2004
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2007
BA(Hons) Fine Art with Political Economy
University of East London, UK
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