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Adam Curtis

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Betaworks

Black Swan

Bobby Nweke

Botto

Boys Club

Catalog

Centre for Ecological Philosophy

Channel

CHAOS

Chaotic Goods

Co-matter

Coordinape

Developh

Dischord Records

Drowned In Sound

Emilie Friedlander

Ev Williams

Exit To Community Collective

Extinction Rebellion

F.A.T. Lab

FKMM

Friends With Benefits

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FUTURX

Gitcoin

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Gnosis Guild

Holly Herndon

Hunter Walk

Ian Rogers

IDEO CoLab

Jacob Horne

Jeff Hammerbacher

Jess Mah

Jess Sloss

John Higgs

Jonathan Hillis

Kei Kreutler

Killing A Friend

Koodos

Laurel Schwulst

Linda Xie

Mat Dryhurst

Matt Holt

MEDLab

Metropolis

Michael Karnjanaprakorn

MSCHF

Nabil Ayers

Near Future Laboratory

New Models

NRMAL

On the Other Side

Pact Collective

Payman Poulladej

Penny Fractions

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pgLang

Prehype

Quorum

RADAR

RadicalXChange

Rehash Studio

RVNG Intl

Sahil Lavingia

Salt Witch DAO

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Scott Moore

Seed Club

Seed Club Ventures

SENSE

Songcamp

SOUN Media

Startupy

Superficial Machines

The Creative Independent

The Ethereum Foundation

The Never Boring Collective

The Pudding

Toby Shorin

Tribute Labs

Trust

Ubuweb

Utopia Labs

Verses

Voyager

Wide Awakes

Wondaland

Zyla

From Chatrooms to Memes: "The Idiot" Dives into a Subculture of Internet Art

“WHAT’S GOOD” is a zine by the creative collective Refraction and the music community Water & Music that explores how the rapid development of AI impacts the lives of artists and musicians. Released as both a digital PDF and physical zine, this Quality Drop marked the first physical publication from the two groups.

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WHAT'S GOOD: Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Ambiguities for Discontinuities” is a concept album by the band Essential Fictions that explores the concept of the Pluriverse. This Quality Drop released the album in both vinyl and digital formats.

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Ambiguities for Discontinuities

“Several People are Typing” is a massive, collaborative publication made by more than 100 contributors that explores the creative potential of collaboration in the era of decentralized media. Led by the writers group Foster and the onchain incubator Seed Club, the drop sold out its 100 onchain editions in just one week.

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A physical zine installed in a newsstand in the Lower East Side of NYC, “A New Creative Era” is a call for a new spirit of collaboration and mutual support among creative people.

R.08 A New Creative Era

“The DAO Anthology” collects landmark essays that explore and helped inspire the development of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, including Other Internet’s landmark “Squad Wealth” and Austin Robey’s “What Co-ops and DAOs Can Learn From Each Other.” 

DAO Anthology

“The Idiot” is a brilliantly curated selection of post-internet art films exploring what it means to live online. Featuring work by eight artists, the curated collection premiered in the Metrograph theatre in NYC using a live Twitch stream, live chat included, that was covered by ArtForum and Office Mag.

The Idiot Film Exhibition

“Everything Is a Self-Portrait” is a physical poetry and photography book by Francis Kanai and Malaya Malandro beautifully printed and crafted in Japan. This Quality Drop marked the public debut of this exquisite collection.

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Everything Is a Self-Portrait

“Sacred Stacks” is a stunning collaborative publication created by eight artist and citizen journalist groups, from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to the Iraqi Journalists Rights Association, that explores how to create and operate a vibrant and useful community online.

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Sacred Stacks: The Art of Cyborg Community

“B2B: A 2 Nite Experience” was the first Quality Drop to offer concert tickets to collectors, all 50 of which sold out within five minutes of the drop first going live. Featuring musicians from the collective Songcamp as well as the onchain record store Catalog, this Quality Drop helped launch two concerts in NYC.

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B2B: A 2 Nite Music Experience

“The Quadratic Funding Collection” reissues a whitepaper written by Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Butterin, RadicalxChange founder Glen Weyl, and Harvard economist Zoe Hitzig that first introduced the concept of quadratic funding to the world. Funds raised from this Quality Drop were directed to fund public goods projects through Gitcoin and the Plurality Institute. 

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The Quadratic Funding Collection

Collaboration Cookbook

Lonely Writers Club

After The Creator Economy

Public Record

CHORUS

Elements of a Metalabel

Introducing Metalabel

Noname Book Club

Temporary Services

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

General Idea

Do Not Research

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Metalabel is a project establishing new ways for creative people to release work together and support one another.

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