Ps... object oriented non object oriented art: http://pallthayer.dyndns.org/microcodes/contr.php?code_id=73
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Pall Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we need a cryptocoin based on unmarketable art (I'm really getting > into this new term that's floating around, "NOOArt - Non Object Oriented > Art... http://www.nooart.org";). We need a mining algorithm that will > search for non-marketable art. The less likely it is to be sellable, the > more it's worth in the cryptocurrency. > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19/01/14 04:36 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote: >> > Maybe now Michael, you can explain it to me .... >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Rob >> > This is sleek and smart work! I like it very much ( although I did >> > have to do quite a lot of googling to fully understand what you were >> > doing...) >> >> Part of the reason for starting this series ("Coins") is to encourage >> people to engage critically with the concepts behind cryptocurrency, so >> I'm glad to see this discussion. >> >> Facecoin is Bitcoin with a different Proof Of Work system. I'll try to >> explain what this means here but I also recommend the following articles >> about Bitcoin and its protocol: >> >> >> http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-how-does-bitcoin-work >> >> http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ >> >> Proof of Work >> ============= >> >> Whenever a computer in the bitcoin network wants to record transactions, >> it must perform a simple but unguessable and time-consuming calculation >> then send the results to other machines on the network to verify. It is >> therefore computationally (and monetarily) expensive to record a >> transaction if you are not actually performing one. This discourages >> abuse of the Bitcoin network. >> >> This calculation and its output are the "proof of work", they prove that >> the computer's user has been willing to do some work and expend some >> resources in order to prove their good faith: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system >> >> In Bitcoin, an algorithm called SHA-256 is applied to the transaction's >> data. Give SHA-256 any data and it will output a string of characters >> that cannot be used to recreate the original data but that will always >> be the same for the same data. They are a kind of identity for data: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function >> >> For example, on the UNIX command line: >> >> $ echo annie | sha256sum >> 7eb9d8162722f815b8aeb728d4112d24c2a2ea821fc0af7286bddab0df79baa9 - >> >> $ echo michael | sha256sum >> bb472c3cc2b662a74956c8539fec9fe73f2b8a9f9124506aa0474698b3bac62d - >> >> $ echo rob | sha256sum >> 30d71981944699f23038164f4eb8189950b4dcf9b39ea2c1ecbda13aea8b7d4a - >> >> $ echo rob | sha256sum >> 30d71981944699f23038164f4eb8189950b4dcf9b39ea2c1ecbda13aea8b7d4a - >> >> Bitcoin uses SHA-256 to repeatedly make such an identity string for the >> transaction data and a number that it increases by one each try called >> the "nonce". Eventually, and there's no way of predicting precisely when >> but it should take about ten minutes, the output string will start with >> several zeroes. When it does, Bitcoin uses that as the proof of work for >> the transaction: >> >> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work >> >> Machine Pareidolia >> ================== >> >> Pareidolia is when we mistakenly see faces in clouds, or electrical >> sockets, or in photographs from space probes: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia >> >> Machine pareidolia is when a face detection algorithm gives a false >> positive, locating a face in an image when there isn't one: >> >> >> http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/01/14/machine-pareidolia-hello-little-fella-meets-facetracker/ >> >> There's been some nice art done using this: >> >> http://www.di12.rca.ac.uk/projects/pareidolic-robot/ >> >> Not every image can be mistaken for a face by a face detection >> algorithm, in particular finding a face in a series of randomly >> generated pixel images takes some time. >> >> The amount of work required to do so will be greater than nothing, and >> cannot be guessed precisely. We can therefore use machine pareidolia >> with random images as proof of work. >> >> Facecoin >> ======== >> >> Facecoin replaces Bitcoin's search for leading zeros with a machine >> pareidolia search for faces. >> >> SHA-256 output is used as an 8x8 256-level greyscale pixel map, and a >> face recognition algorithm is used to try to find one or more faces in >> it. If no faces are found, the nonce is increased and another attempt to >> find a face is made. This can take from one to several hundred tries. >> >> When a face is found, the nonce and the face bounding rectangle are >> recorded so the proof of work can be validated. >> >> Why? >> ==== >> >> Bitcoin is a very interesting development in cyberculture. It's a >> repository for the hopes and fears of various ideologies, and a frontier >> or dark space for the imagination and social or economic activity in a >> 90s Internet way. Its protocol is a communication model of existence, >> identity, community and proof, with a CCRU-ish market worship at its >> base. Because of all of this I think it's worthy of and desperately >> needs artistic investigation. >> >> Artworks are proofs of aesthetic work, used as unique value identities >> both in the market (art is used as an investment, signifier of status, >> and symbolic resolution of lacks in free market ideology by oil >> oligarchs and trust fund managers) and by organized crime (stolen art is >> used as a medium of exchange by criminal gangs). >> >> If Facecoin was widely adopted these two value identity systems would be >> trivially but critically mapped onto each other by millions of machines >> cranking out imaginary portraits across the network as part of a >> financial network, and vice versa. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > ***************************** > Pall Thayer > artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > ***************************** > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org *****************************
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