On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 8:51 PM Molly Hankwitz
asked:
Artist as “administrative author” or initiator of a system, through which
> communities can act, somewhat recursively to establish value, and/or
> prosper via, for instance, a shared currency?
>
I am fascinated by the concept of the artist
Hi Michael,
Or, maybe, originality has been all along, a fictional history, and a
signifier for fictional social relations in much art history, if only to
justify value through “scarcity” (genius and originality are rare) or
create its justification (there is only one original) and to obscure
Maybe looking at ancient coins and currencies will supply some context no
one has thought of...Yale Music zoom session on what was real in
Byzantium...
https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/1716147047174/WN_QpX_wQWkRm66Dymd95VmqQ
Forthcoming...
Molly
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 4:02 PM Michael
> On Mar 27, 2021, at 1:27 PM, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
> ..how original is original when originality died long ago ?
>
Yes, originality died with the second cave painting, but has been reborn many
times since, even if only evident to new generations. Depending on the
fineness of your mesh,
Cryptokitties such an idea...money as expressive medium- because words and
ideas circulate like currency - stamp the dollar bill with anarchy, antifa,
Harriet Tubman! A token is something which exchanges and can circulate...at
some point we step outside if circulation itself, which social media
The ecstasy of ownership
I'm still stuck with the whole NFT thing. But I want to move away from
context of art, which has such a long history of conspicuous
consumption, speculative bubbles, and dubious objects that it's very
tempting to see this basically as the continuation of all of that, a
