This is fantastic and on target and thanks! What do you think is the relationship between bitcoin and art production today? And why is art production re: bitcoin tied to the substrate? For me, probably wrongly, the problematic economics tends to dominate the work itself - which is why the slow machines etc. discussed are perfect!
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:36 AM marc.garrett via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > César Escudero Andaluz. So many ways to mess up with surveillance > capitalism. Interview with Regine Debatty. > > Back in 2016, César Escudero Andaluz and Martín Nadal hacked an old > calculator and turned it into Bitttercoin “the worst Bitcoin miner ever”. > Relying on a rudimentary technology, the machine takes an excruciatingly > long time (estimated to an eternity) to validate the pending transactions > in the blockchain. Meanwhile, the complex computational operations are > printed on a seemingly endless scroll. I’ll be forever grateful to the two > artists for creating a work that materialises so clearly the invisible > calculations, physical dimension and ecological impact of blockchain > technology. It’s one of those works that make your life easier when you > have to explain an otherwise abstruse technological innovation. > > Today I’m interviewing César Escudero Andaluz (hopefully one day, i’ll get > to talk with Martín Nadal as well!) César is doing a Ph.D at the Interface > Cultures department, Kunstuniversität Linz. His practice as an artist and > researcher investigates Human-Computer Interaction, interface criticism, > digital culture and its social and political effects. Although it always > has elements of playfulness and humour about it, his work is grounded in > the kind of socio-political interrogations that make our time so > infuriating and stimulating. > > The artist’s critical approach to technology can be found in works such as > an orchestra of musical instruments that mine for Bitcoins, a 3D printable > kit to cut undersea internet cables, a series of cassettes which audio > emerges from the data extracted on the social media profiles of The Yes > Men, Nuria Güell, Oliver Grau, Noam Chomsky, Alexei Shulgin, Lynn Hershman, > Vuk Cosic, etc. > > > https://we-make-money-not-art.com/cesar-escudero-andaluz-so-many-ways-to-mess-up-with-surveillance-capitalism/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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