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Protocol Art I - Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer

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Primavera De Filippi, a legal scholar and artist, introduces a five-module course on protocol art that bridges legal governance and artistic practice. She argues that protocol art—using distributed technologies like blockchain and AI to create works that expose legal and governance challenges—has historical precedents and contemporary applications, with implications for intellectual property and collaborative governance structures.

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Primavera De Filippi and Felix Beer explore protocol art through case studies and audience analysis, examining how protocols—systems of rules created by designers but executed and modified by communities—function as artistic practice. The discussion uses role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons as a concrete example of protocol art, analyzing how rule systems evolve across different social contexts and how they balance constraint with creative freedom.

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