Cosmo-Financial Imaginaries: BeeDAO as Infrastructural Art Prototype for Planetary Regeneration
Érik Bordeleau, Nathalie Casemajor · 2023
This paper explores the relationship between artistic blockchain experimentation and technological imaginaries centered on interspecies collective agency. We focus on BeeDAO, an artist-run urban project in the form of a DAO dedicated to bees’ well-being. Our analysis exemplifies how infrastructural art reimagines economic value in the context of Regenerative Finance (ReFi). Describing its economic order as cosmo-financial, we examine BeeDAO’s political orientation, governance model, and ecological techno-agency. The challenges of the project are discussed to highlight blockchain's specificities as cybernetic and automated systems. We offer a critical and creative approach to cyber-system design, highlighting its political and aesthetic economy implications.