What makes an object art? It is clear that these objects are destined to be commodities.
Can an art object be a commodity? Can commodities be art objects and remain commodities? Is Duchamps Fountain still a urinal? I seem to remember somebody testing this hypothesis. Regards Simon On 18/11/08 13:33, "patrick simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are these art objects?! > patrick > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Pall Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've got some work for sale. Here's the long and short of it. >> >> I'm going to be exhibiting a piece of mine called Exist.pl (some of >> you may remember it as it was developed via discussions here on the >> list as well as other lists) at the MakeArt festival in France in a >> couple of weeks. The work will also be exhibited as part of the Piksel >> festival in Bergen, Norway. Here in Iceland we have what's called The >> Center for Icelandic Art. Their job is to provide financial assistance >> to artists taking their work abroad. They're the only source for >> travel grants for short trips like this one. I applied, I got rejected >> (with no explanation of why), I have this nagging feeling that they >> don't "get" this type of art. So what I would like to do now, is to >> sell copies of this work to get some funds towards the trip (I had >> already bought flight tickets before I got rejected). The work >> consists of a piece of software running on a computer. It doesn't >> produce any output but it's doing a lot of background work. So to >> provide the viewer with some information on what's going on, four A2 >> sized posters, displaying the source code at various stages of the >> softwares development, will be displayed. >> >> The software itself is free under the GPL license and lives at >> http://code.google.com/p/existpl >> >> But I have for sale a limited edition of twenty sets of these posters. >> I'll only sell them in sets. There are four posters in the set. These >> are signed and numbered, high quality color prints suitable for >> framing. Ideally, they would be displayed in a row on a wall with a >> computer nearby to run the software when the owner chooses (but this >> entirely up to the purchaser of the work). You can see a small version >> of what they look like at the following URLs: >> >> http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code1.pdf >> <http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code1.pdf> >> http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code2.pdf >> <http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code2.pdf> >> http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code3.pdf >> <http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code3.pdf> >> http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code4.pdf >> <http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code4.pdf> >> >> The price is $50 per set. If I manage to sell all twenty sets, this >> will provide enough to cover printing and mailing costs, with the >> remainder being approximately what I applied for from The Center for >> Icelandic Art. >> >> On top of being colorful and thought provoking, they create an >> interesting visual pattern when lined up together. >> >> Please contact me offlist if you're interested. >> >> Pall Thayer >> >> -- >> ***************************** >> Pall Thayer >> artist >> http://www.this.is/pallit >> ***************************** >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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