Process Artifacts
Fan of “Bitcoincloud” 2.1
Artistic Technology Research
Bitcoincloud is a post-interactive installation and reactive sculpture thematizing artistic production as well as alternative economics. The work excludes itself from the art market by generating Bitcoins in direct relation to the attention it receives from its audience.
On display is a custom modification of a computer fan - with LEDs and a lasercut wooden central element.
Card of “Spacebank”, customer #152
Fran Ilich (2012)
Through mimicking capitalism, Ilich questions how we can subvert the existing financial system. The Spacebank is a Virtual Community Investment Bank based on the Digital Material Sunflower (DMS) floating currency. Spacebank offers a market for alternative and experimental currencies through the Brooklyn Stock Exchange trading platform.
Sunflower Seeds / Blockchain Performance
Fran Ilich & Artistic Bokeh (2012)
“Globalized capitalist markets use finance as a means to extract surplus and value from localized world production - relying on networks of power to do so. But finance can also be reversed engineered so that it becomes the seed for new forms of cooperation, collaboration and socialization, drawing on and building networks through virtual communities. Used creatively, finance can actually further the prosperity and efficacy of minority reports, marginal narratives, alternate commodity markets, social currencies, hacktivism and other activist practices, as well as strengthen the hope of sustainability in creative digital labor and internet production practices.“ (text via eyebeam)
On display are 20 Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds that were purchased with Bitcoins generated by the BitcoinCloud. The transaction between Artistic Bokeh and SpaceBank stays active in the Bitcoin Blockchain and is publicly viewable. Initially, Ai Weiwei produced over 100 million seeds - the porcelain items were hand-painted by artisans in Jingdezhen. The seeds gained in value after the Tate Modern bought approx. eight million. In a Sotheby’s auction (2011) the seeds sold for £3.50 apiece. The Bitcoins that were used to purchase 20 seeds are now valued at approximately $6120.00 (as of Nov 26, 2013).
Community Currency “Gibling”
Franz Xaver
The Austrian community currency Gibling is designed by artists and represents “depreciating money” (it loses 5% of its value per year). Currently over 40 partner institutions in (Museums, Shops, etc.) accept the currency in Austria.
Sunflower Seeds / Blockchain Performance
Fran Ilich & Artistic Bokeh (2012)
“Globalized capitalist markets use finance as a means to extract surplus and value from localized world production - relying on networks of power to do so. But finance can also be reversed engineered so that it becomes the seed for new forms of cooperation, collaboration and socialization, drawing on and building networks through virtual communities. Used creatively, finance can actually further the prosperity and efficacy of minority reports, marginal narratives, alternate commodity markets, social currencies, hacktivism and other activist practices, as well as strengthen the hope of sustainability in creative digital labor and internet production practices.“ (text via eyebeam)
On display are 20 Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds that were purchased with Bitcoins generated by the BitcoinCloud. The transaction between Artistic Bokeh and SpaceBank stays active in the Bitcoin Blockchain and is publicly viewable. Initially, Ai Weiwei produced over 100 million seeds - the porcelain items were hand-painted by artisans in Jingdezhen. The seeds gained in value after the Tate Modern bought approx. eight million. In a Sotheby’s auction (2011) the seeds sold for £3.50 apiece. The Bitcoins that were used to purchase 20 seeds are now valued at approximately $6120.00 (as of Nov 26, 2013).
“mas*ing” - the cup
Prayas Abhinav (2012)
We live in times which place a particularly high value on transparency and surveillance. So the desire in society to know everything about us and the desire to allow agents to know everything about us co-exist at the same time. We are implicated in this process by willingly letting our web identity and presence become a brochure. Social media becomes a space for thinking out loud. Our website-brochures communicate our polished professional profile and social media confirms that we are human and reachable. It seems like a plan for making a convincing sales-pitch. Prayas Abhinav’s masking hardware apparatus allows a kind of privileging and layering of the access which people have to an online resource or conversation. The cup becomes a key that allows an individual access to a more intimate and discreet space for online social interaction.
gift an object to a friend.
share a story on your site that you only
want your friend to access.
your friend visits your website and plugs in the object to the computer.
only your friend sees the story.
repeat.
Community Currency “Gibling”
Franz Xaver
The Austrian community currency Gibling is designed by artists and represents “depreciating money” (it loses 5% of its value per year). Currently over 40 partner institutions in (Museums, Shops, etc.) accept the currency in Austria.
Process Artifacts
Fan of “Bitcoincloud” 2.1
Artistic Technology Research
Bitcoincloud is a post-interactive installation and reactive sculpture thematizing artistic production as well as alternative economics. The work excludes itself from the art market by generating Bitcoins in direct relation to the attention it receives from its audience.
On display is a custom modification of a computer fan - with LEDs and a lasercut wooden central element.
Card of “Spacebank”, customer #152
Fran Ilich (2012)
Through mimicking capitalism, Ilich questions how we can subvert the existing financial system. The Spacebank is a Virtual Community Investment Bank based on the Digital Material Sunflower (DMS) floating currency. Spacebank offers a market for alternative and experimental currencies through the Brooklyn Stock Exchange trading platform.
Sunflower Seeds / Blockchain Performance
Fran Ilich & Artistic Bokeh (2012)
“Globalized capitalist markets use finance as a means to extract surplus and value from localized world production - relying on networks of power to do so. But finance can also be reversed engineered so that it becomes the seed for new forms of cooperation, collaboration and socialization, drawing on and building networks through virtual communities. Used creatively, finance can actually further the prosperity and efficacy of minority reports, marginal narratives, alternate commodity markets, social currencies, hacktivism and other activist practices, as well as strengthen the hope of sustainability in creative digital labor and internet production practices.“ (text via eyebeam)
On display are 20 Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds that were purchased with Bitcoins generated by the BitcoinCloud. The transaction between Artistic Bokeh and SpaceBank stays active in the Bitcoin Blockchain and is publicly viewable. Initially, Ai Weiwei produced over 100 million seeds - the porcelain items were hand-painted by artisans in Jingdezhen. The seeds gained in value after the Tate Modern bought approx. eight million. In a Sotheby’s auction (2011) the seeds sold for £3.50 apiece. The Bitcoins that were used to purchase 20 seeds are now valued at approximately $6120.00 (as of Nov 26, 2013).
Community Currency “Gibling”
Franz Xaver
The Austrian community currency Gibling is designed by artists and represents “depreciating money” (it loses 5% of its value per year). Currently over 40 partner institutions in (Museums, Shops, etc.) accept the currency in Austria.
Sunflower Seeds / Blockchain Performance
Fran Ilich & Artistic Bokeh (2012)
“Globalized capitalist markets use finance as a means to extract surplus and value from localized world production - relying on networks of power to do so. But finance can also be reversed engineered so that it becomes the seed for new forms of cooperation, collaboration and socialization, drawing on and building networks through virtual communities. Used creatively, finance can actually further the prosperity and efficacy of minority reports, marginal narratives, alternate commodity markets, social currencies, hacktivism and other activist practices, as well as strengthen the hope of sustainability in creative digital labor and internet production practices.“ (text via eyebeam)
On display are 20 Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds that were purchased with Bitcoins generated by the BitcoinCloud. The transaction between Artistic Bokeh and SpaceBank stays active in the Bitcoin Blockchain and is publicly viewable. Initially, Ai Weiwei produced over 100 million seeds - the porcelain items were hand-painted by artisans in Jingdezhen. The seeds gained in value after the Tate Modern bought approx. eight million. In a Sotheby’s auction (2011) the seeds sold for £3.50 apiece. The Bitcoins that were used to purchase 20 seeds are now valued at approximately $6120.00 (as of Nov 26, 2013).
“mas*ing” - the cup
Prayas Abhinav (2012)
We live in times which place a particularly high value on transparency and surveillance. So the desire in society to know everything about us and the desire to allow agents to know everything about us co-exist at the same time. We are implicated in this process by willingly letting our web identity and presence become a brochure. Social media becomes a space for thinking out loud. Our website-brochures communicate our polished professional profile and social media confirms that we are human and reachable. It seems like a plan for making a convincing sales-pitch. Prayas Abhinav’s masking hardware apparatus allows a kind of privileging and layering of the access which people have to an online resource or conversation. The cup becomes a key that allows an individual access to a more intimate and discreet space for online social interaction.
gift an object to a friend.
share a story on your site that you only
want your friend to access.
your friend visits your website and plugs in the object to the computer.
only your friend sees the story.
repeat.
Community Currency “Gibling”
Franz Xaver
The Austrian community currency Gibling is designed by artists and represents “depreciating money” (it loses 5% of its value per year). Currently over 40 partner institutions in (Museums, Shops, etc.) accept the currency in Austria.