Primavera De Filippi
Resident
Primavera De Filippi is a Permanent Researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the co-founder of the Internet Governance Forum’s dynamic coalitions on Blockchain Technology and former member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies at the World Economic Forum. Her research is geared towards the analysis of the legal challenges raised by decentralized technologies and the concept of governance-by- design, with specific focus on blockchain technologies and their potential to design new governance models with more distributed and participatory decision-making. Her book, “Blockchain and the Law” was published in 2018 by Harvard University Press (co-authored with Aaron Wright).
In 2010, Primavera co-founded artistic collective O’khaos with a view to further the production of “mechanical algorithms” that instantiate digital concepts into the physical world. She is at the origin of the Plantoid project, a blockchain-based life-form that illustrates the notion of a Decentralized Autonomous Organisation (DAO) through a mechanical sculpture that is autonomous, self-sufficient and capable of reproducing itself by means of cryptocurrency.
Primavera’s work has been exposed in various museums, galleries and art fairs around the world including Ars Electronica (Linz), Furtherfield Gallery (London), Kinetica Art Fair (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Grand Palais (Paris), Gaité Lyrique (Paris), Cent Quatre (Paris), Aksioma Center for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), Filodrammatica Gallery (Rijeka), as well as festivals such as Burning Man (Nevada), Fusion Festival (Berlin), and Nowhere (Saragoza).