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Hi, I’m Austin. I'm interested in collective internet culture, shared ownership, and new models for the online creative economy.
Contact me: austinrobey[at]gmail.com
IG: @michaelcoors
Twitter: @austinrobey_
📍Brooklyn, NY
Current
I’m working on something new.
Also:
Previous
- Metalabel builds resources, tools, and infrastructure for collectives and creative communities.
- Ampled is a web-based platform for direct community support of musicians, formed as a collectively owned co-op.
- Unnamed Friends is a NEW INC member-led, democratically-controlled creative ecosystem grant fund.
Writing
Zines
Ampled Zine
Articles
Friends With Benefits: What co-ops and DAOs can learn from each other
Mirror: A guide for designing online community governance
Refraction: Imagining a new creator economy
Dirt: Solid(ar)ity
Dirt: Friends With Benefits
Dirt: Radical Friends
Tally: A simple guide to quadratic voting
Forefront: Ways to improve the ownership economy
The Creative Independent: How to start a cooperative
The Creative Independent: How to create community support systems
FOREFRONT: How community tokens can power cooperatives
Music Ally: Artist ownership is the way to fix Spotify's broken model
Internet of Ownership: Investor-owned platforms vs. User-owned platforms
Mutual Interest: The future of tech will be an old model, the co-op
Internet of Ownership: Equity-Free Fundraising: Here are our Revenue-Share Term Sheets
Ampled: It's time to put new ideas on the table
Press/ Interviews
IDEO: “Cooperatives are an old idea, but they have so much potential for shaping radical futures”
Pioneer Works: How to Unlearn Capitalism through Cooperative Ownership
Protein Agency: Dirty Words Report #3, Ownership
Guardian Bandcamp sells to Epic: can a video game company save independent music?
Decrypt: What would Karl Marx think about crypto?
Slate: The Music Industry Is Finally Scaring Spotify
Water & Music Why AmpledDAO Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
Resident Advisor What Does Epic Games Buying Bandcamp Mean For DIY Music?
Resident Advisor: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Promise of Utopia
Salon: How a punk-inspired collective beat the streaming giants at their own game
AdHoc: Ampled Hopes to Make the Music Industry More Equitable for Artists
Future Laboratory: Neo-collectivism
Fast Company: Tech can still live up to its promise as a force for justice
VICE: There’s No Such Thing as Independent Music in the Age of Coronavirus
VICE: Is There Ethical Music Streaming Under Capitalism?
Washington Post: Inside ‘crypto Woodstock,’ where technologists plot a utopian future
NEW INC: Rewriting the Rulebook: Creating in a Post-COVID World
Speaking
Primavera Pro Madrid 2023
Trust: Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 15 years?
Wavelengths Summit 2023(Water & Music): Music Community Building and Decentralization: Lessons from History
Reboot: DAOs and cooperatives
Cooper Union: Artworldbuilding
Crypto, Culture, and Society: Let’s DAO It: Co-ops, DAOs, and the Way Forward for Collectives
FWB Fest 2022: After Crypto (Required Reading)
WESTAF Creative Vitality Summit: Liberatory Investment Models for the Creative Economy
Betaworks Beyond Decentralization: Designing for Equity, Democracy, and Human Rights in Web3
NEW INC: Life in the speculative future
IDEO: Future Ways of Working
Center For Cultural Innovation: Creative Cooperatives In Practice
Next Gen Entrepreneurship: Platform Co-ops
Owners To Owners: Empowering Your Workers Through Employee Ownership
Cooperation Humbolt: Artists Dismantling Capitalism
Wavelengths Conference 2021: Alternate Streams
Berklee School of Music Innovation Con: Music Models For The New Creative Economy
Platform Cooperativism Conference: NYC 2019
CoCap Nourishing Community Wealth: Oakland 2019
Podcasts/ Radio
Joshua Citarella
Building At The Edges (Seed Club)
Big Brother and the Hodling Company
Dublab: Peoples Portal w/ Austin Robey
FUTURE LEFT
8 Ball Radio
Everything Co-op
Organizations
NEW INC, Y6 Member "Equitable Platforms" Track 2019 & Y7 Community Member of the New Museum cultural incubator
Seed Club Member SC02, social token accelerator DAO
Startupy Curator
Friends With Benefits Member, Events Contributor
Dirt Contributor
Start.coop Y2 cohort member, 2020
Equitable Economy Fund Member
Exit To Community Mentor
Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator Venture Fellow, 2015-2017
US Dept of Arts + Culture People's WPA
Center For Cultural Innovation AmbitioUS investee
Grant For The Web research grantee
David Prize Semi-finalist
Teaching
For the past two years, I’ve been a Visiting Fellow at The New School University for a course titled "Music and Platform Cooperativism".
I've also either spoken at or given guest lectures at:
- Columbia University
- School of Visual Arts
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Wake Forest
- Pratt Institute
- Parsons
- New School
- Berklee School of Music
- University of Hartford
- NYU
- Cooper Union