Kei Kreutler 🗝

is a writer specializing in communications, strategy, and decentralized governance with an interdisciplinary background in arts, culture, and technology. My work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.

Email contact@keikreutler.net
Twitter @keikreutler
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Professional Experience

Inner Library, Consulting, 2024 to Present
My consulting work currently focuses on building a new cultural institution in the Bay Area, CA that will open to the public in 2027. I also advise on organizational design, memory, and strategy, and I facilitate workshops that help organizations explore how they'll evolve over time. This includes writing and ghostwriting essays, reports, and narrative slide decks on culture and technology for clients.

Ethereum Foundation Summer of Protocols, Core Researcher, 2023
I researched and published work on the concept of memory in relation to “protocols,” specifically focused on how the concept of memory from antiquity to the present changed with the advent of computing.

Gnosis, Director of Strategy and Communications, 2017 to 2022
I led strategy and communications at Gnosis, building decentralized software infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem with a focus on decentralized governance. I executed core project announcements, including Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe), Gnosis Protocol, and GnosisDAO, which involved launching, maintaining, and growing community channels like newsletters, social media, and events at the Gnosis-founded co-working space Full Node. I played multiple roles, informing strategic direction for the company, managing the communications team, and writing technical product communications. I also authored influential essays such as A Prehistory of DAOs that shaped the industry.

Education

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design, Postgraduate, Moscow, 2017
As part of this postgraduate program, I collaboratively produced Patternist, a narrative project with a proof-of-concept augmented reality app.

Sarah Lawrence College, B.A., New York, 2008 to 2012
I studied philosophy, art, and computer science.

Software and Media Fluencies

Agentic Media
Claude, OpenClaw NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Cursor

Visual Media
Photography (Fuji X-S10), Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro), Final Cut Pro, StreamYard

Project Management and Collaboration
Notion, Google Docs, Asana, Airtable, Miro, GitHub

Technical and Web
Python, C++, React, HTML/CSS, REST APIs, Git

Marketing, Analytics, and Social
Mailchimp, Hootsuite, Salesforce Sales Cloud, HubSpot CRM, Pipedrive, Google Analytics 4, WordPress, Ghost CMS, Buffer, Twitter, Instagram, Substack, Discord, Slack

Projects and Affiliations

Memory Research Group (Ethereum Foundation Summer of Protocols), Lead, 2025 to Present
I lead this online group that meets regularly to discuss a text related to the concept of memory across fields like philosophy, neuroscience, and computer science.

Metabased Fellowship, Syndicate, 2024 to 2025
I researched and wrote brief case studies of organizations relevant for designing economic mechanisms around ownership of decentralized infrastructure, like electric co-ops, keiretsus, and mutual funds.

Regen Foundation, Board Member, 2021 to Present
I sit on the Board of Directors for Regen Foundation, a non-profit that catalyzes grassroots institutions for ecosystem regeneration and resilience through community-led governance, ownership, and sensing using digital public infrastructure.

Other Internet Research Institute, Contributor, 2020 to Present
I contribute research writing to Other Internet Research Institute, a non-profit that investigates the psychological, political, and economic effects of digitalization.

Gnosis Guild, Co‑Creator, 2021 to 2022
While working at Gnosis, I led Gnosis Guild, a small team incubated by Gnosis that established an open standard to support composable, modular software for organizations, which was featured on the MIT Computational Law Report.1

Antikythera, Affiliate Researcher, 2023
I participated in the Synthetic Catallaxy research salon hosted by the Antikythera think-tank.

Technical Writing and Product Announcements

Zodiac: The Expansion Pack for DAOs, Gnosis Guild blog, 2021

Inventories, Not Identities: Why multisigs are the future of online accounts, Gnosis Guild blog, 2021

Announcing GnosisDAO, Gnosis blog, 2020

Announcing Gnosis Protocol, Gnosis blog, 2020

Selected Essays and Talks

"It is not solely what the system dreams but also what it remembers," Essay contribution to publication, All Media is Training Data, Serpentine Galleries, 2024

Essay, Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity, Ethereum Foundation Summer of Protocols, 2024

"Mediums of Memory," Chapter contribution to publication, Catastrophe Time!, Strange Attractor Press / MIT Press, 2023

Talk, Mediums of Memory, FWB Fest, 2022

Essay, A Prehistory of DAOs, Gnosis Guild blog, 2021

Talk, Autonomous Ecologies at a Distance, Onassis Foundation, 2019

The Byzantine Generalization Problem, Essay contribution to Technosphere Magazine, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2018

Selected Art Exhibitions

Group exhibition, “Rose” (installation and web app), Commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum for The Future Starts Here, London, UK, 2018

Group exhibition, Commissioned for Proof of Work, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany, 2018

Patternist (augmented-reality app), Supported by Rhizome for Ideas City at the New Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2017

Group exhibition, “Open Space Observatory” (installation), Commissioned by FACT Liverpool for The New Observatory, Liverpool, UK, 2017