(consultations, pedagogy, invitations) I work on economics, design, and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems. I also teach courses, convene workshops, and give lectures at universities, arts festivals, and conferences around the world. These cover a wide range of technical, philosophical, and creative topics. Feel free to contact me via this form.

(WIP) I’m currently working on ‘Scenes From A Memorypool’, a ‘prosaic mosaic’ of weird texts for an upcoming anthology publication. Research is ongoing for ‘Prophet Motives’ and ‘The Chain Mail Gaze’ creative and theoretical works, in preparation for presentations, exhibitions, and book projects.

(journal) I’m Technology Editor & write a column ‘Tour d’Horizon’ at the MIT Computational Law Report. Currently working on an article series titled ‘(Mis)adventures in Crypto-Governance’. In the past, I co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal.

(0xSalon) I initiated and administer a para-institutional project named the 0xSalon, which is a collective endeavour that critically interrogates digital culture through discourse events and residencies, producing scholarly and creative interventions in the process. We are conducting an ongoing, non-profit experiment in knowledge sharing and collective cultural production.

Wassim Z. Alsindi, PhD

Very Short Biography

Wassim Z. Alsindi Ph.D.
Wassim operates at the intersection of intersections, chronicling visions, designs, and externalities of contemporary technologies across context and episteme. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast physics, co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal, and has performed, lectured, and exhibited in over 30 countries.

Short Biography

Wassim Z. Alsindi Ph.D.
Wassim Z. Alsindi is the creative director of 0xSalon, a counter-institutional collective critically engaging with technology through art and philosophy. His research practice is primarily concerned with the externalities of networked technologies. He holds a doctorate in experimental quantum physics, writes an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report and co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal. His recent writings have appeared in publications such as Spike Art Magazine, Weird Economies, 0xFolklore, In The Mesh, and the Philosophical Journal of Agorism, in addition to numerous creative works spanning experimental music, satirical theatre, speculative fiction, games, poetry, and machinic scripture. He has performed, lectured, and exhibited in over 30 countries, at venues including ZKM (DE), Unsound Festival (PL), Institute of Contemporary Arts (UK), Akademie der Künste (DE), CITY CITY Gallery (TH), Something Else (EG), AVTO (TR), and FIBER Festival (NL).

Full Biography

Wassim Z. Alsindi, Ph.D.
Wassim is the founder and Creative Director of the 0x Salon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices as an event series, residency programme, upstart publisher, and epistemic skunkworks. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the ‘MIT Computational Law Report’, and he co-founded MIT’s ‘Cryptoeconomic Systems’ journal and conference series. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham alongside degrees in chemistry, astrophysics, and finance, and a postdoctoral fellowship in knowledge transfer.

His recent writings critiquing contemporary technology have appeared in venues such as Spike Art Magazine, the Philosophical Journal of Agorism, and Weird Economies. He has spoken about his research at venues such as the MIT Media Lab (US), Unsound Festival (PL), The Institute of Contemporary Art (UK), Akademie der Künste (DE), Web3 Summit (DE), Devcon (TH), H0thouse (SG), Something Else (EG), AVTO (TR), Trust (DE), and FIBER Festival (NL).

Wassim co-founded a copyleft experimental music record label and event series ‘The Centrifuge’ in 2008, and since 2012 Wassim has irregularly released various kinds of irregular electronic and electroacoustic music. Today these works are being collated and archived as ‘Essential Abstractions’. Between 2012 and 2017, Wassim co-curated the music programme and curated the discourse programme at Norbergfestival in Sweden. Between 2017 and 2019, Wassim clandestinely operated the satirical institution ‘The Byzantine Business School’ which produced text and images critiquing crypto culture. Since 2020, Wassim has written experimental poetry and scripture as part of the ‘Cryptographic Poetics Researchers’ Union’ and solo.

As Creative Director of the 0xSalon, Wassim has conceptualised and delivered numerous collaborative creative projects. In 2021, Wassim co-created an unscripted radio play ‘Swan Fake’. In 2022, Wassim and the 0xSalon were selected as S+T+ARTS ‘Repairing The Present’ residents at Art Hub Copenhagen, working on a creative programme entitled ‘The Art of Indifference’ probing the implications and externalities of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work. A satirical play ‘The Black Hole of Money’ premiered at the Kulturværftet in Helsingør, Denmark, and an interactive storytelling environment ‘The Immaculate Misconception’ was included in the :REWORLD exhibition at MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, Italy and subsequently included in HEK Basel's digital exhibition There Is No Perfect Spell. Performances have taken place at panke.gallery in Berlin, and CITYCITY Gallery in Bangkok. Documentation from ‘The Black Hole of Money’ was included in the exhibition :RETOOL at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.

In 2023, Wassim led a team to complete the development of ‘Fau0x Salon’, a techno-esoteric discursive role-playing card deck which he had been developing for several years. The deck was exhibited at ‘The Seashore of Endless Worlds’ at Le Commun in Geneva, Switzerland, and more recently has been used as a ludo-pedagogical tool at the ICA in London, Unsound Festival in Kraków, Dweb Camp in California, CITYCITY Gallery in Bangkok, Something Else Symposium in Cairo. Further sessions are planned at AVTO in Istanbul, Au Jus in Brussels, and Trust in Berlin.

Wassim is currently working on multiple literary and artistic projects, both solo and in collaboration with the 0xSalon community.