Experiments in art and value: burning Bitcoins to buy Ai Weiwei
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- ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Evaluation and Valuation
Presentation Title:
- Experiments in art and value: burning Bitcoins to buy Ai Weiwei
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(Short paper)
Keywords: Artistic Research, Bitcoin, Performance, Media Arts, Artistic Bokeh, Bitcoincloud, Community Practice, Artistic Capital.
Critical new media art is based on research-based art practice. It is both research- and process-oriented, so that the final result is not “completed” works (products) but rather process artifacts. This paper describes the artistic research and development of the art-group “Artistic Bokeh”, which is developing new documentation formats, and conducting experiments about the value of artistic practice and labor.
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