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No Funding: Be the Decentralized Futurist Artist Collective You Want to See in the World

No Funding - the newest project from Stupid Hackathon co-founder Amelia Winger-Bearskin -- is a mutal aid network that aims to help creatives radically rethink our relationships to funding, grants, and gatekeepers. In an arts and media culture increasingly focused on securing patronage from institutions, corporations, and wealthy individuals, No Funding asks what creative life would look like if artists were fully liberated from money and the self-censorship imposed by its pursuit? Rather than experience the soul crushing lifestyle of striving, rejection, and constant jockeying for position, could we instead find new ways to support one another? What would we make? 

As part of the official announcement of No Funding, Winger-Bearskin has written a short story Child’s Play, where she imagines a world in which children seize control of the global economy with nothing more than a Minecraft server and their grandparents' goodwill.

No Funding is a public group; fill out this form to get in on the fun and participate in weekly online conversations where members present on topics near and dear to them. No Funding is primarily BIPOC creative technologists but it is open to anyone who has needed a day job to make something cool they believe in. Our motto is no-striving no-hustling: No-Funding.com a creative collective.