On the Creative Life

What's an A-Corp?

In June, the first ever Artist Corporations bill was signed into law in Colorado. Beginning in early 2027, artists and creators will be able to form a new kind of company designed around creative...

NOTHING KNOWING SOMETHING

There are three phases of matter: gas, liquid, and solid. There are three phases of creative work: nothing, knowing, and something. The three phases of matter are well understood. However, we fail to...

How Artist Corporations became law

The Artist Corporation (A-Corp) is a new legal business form designed specifically for artists and creators. It simplifies shared ownership, protects creative missions and intellectual property, and...

Dark forests and the new internet

Last week we spoke remotely at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. This is the text and slides of our talk. My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me. Today I'm going to talk about how we and...

Dark Forests and the new internet

The text of a talk I gave remotely for the Sonar Festival in Barcelona this morning. My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me. Today I'm going to talk about ways we and society are both...

The first legal structure for artists in America is now law

Yesterday morning, Governor Polis signed the Colorado Artist Company Act — the law that creates Artist Corporations (A-Corps), the first legal structure in the United States built specifically for...

DFOS R.01: Hacienda

This is the time after. This is the time before. A world descended into chaos. Surveillance cheap, ubiquitous, now smart. Public dialogue getting worse. The people have gone quiet. Understandably so....

Seven years in the forest

Seven years ago this month, I sent this list an essay about how I felt increasingly reluctant to be my real self online. I and many others, I wrote, were retreating from public view into the dark...

A-Corp passes: 49-14

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gy2PDvx0458?feature=oembed I was standing outside a committee room in the Colorado State Capitol while our legislative advisor whispered in my ear. This one will support...

Dispatch from Denver

We’re writing from snowy Denver, where in a few hours we'll testify before the Colorado House Business Affairs & Labor Committee in favor of Artist Corporations. If today goes well, the bill moves to...