Its not a commodity unless there is demand. Depending on how you look at things/commodities/art they might appear different. And keep in mind you only see what you know.
Simon Biggs schrieb: > 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/%7Epalli/code1.pdf> > http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code2.pdf > <http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/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/%7Epalli/code3.pdf> > http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code4.pdf > <http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
