-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 marc garrett: > Hi Rob, > > On behalf of Paul Hertz (he does not know this yet ;-) I’m posting > his comments from Facebook about your latest article ‘The ABC of > Accelerationist Blockchain Critique’ - > http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/abc-accelerationist-blockchain-critique > > - - here — cuz why not? > > Robert Jackson said “that essay was terrifyingly glorious, or > gloriously terrifying.”
Excellent. :-) > Paul’s response is below… > > At first and somewhat hasty read, it strikes me that: > > 0) An algorithmic futures market in art criticism would be prone to > all the pressures of chaotic emergence—localized hill-climbing, > basins of attraction, non-linearity, deterministic chaos—which a > posteriori become regarded as "predictive" by way of cultural > assumptions in the context. The systems I suggest are driven by human input rather than algorithmic control, although any electronic market is prone to High Frequency Trading attacks (I describe how these can be used for art here ;-) - http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/vampire-digital-art ). The hill climbing (etc.) in theory map to the kinds of critical prejudice and disagreement that essayistic criticism in diverse publications makes harder to get an overview of. Making them mathematically describable and analyzable would be a benefit of the systems I suggest. > 1) There are innumerable archipelagoes of art production, many of > which are not susceptible (for the moment) to market evaluations > that depend on digital technology. Yes this is related to the problem with David Galenson's work that I mention (many culturally valuable artworks are not exposed to the market, making them literally priceless). The technical solution I propose is to create digital proxies for artworks. If the archipelagos don't wish to be affected by those proxies then in theory they can ignore them. Or if they wish to actively refuse them they can apply anti-surveillance technology to that task. But that's being affected in a different way. > 2) I'm happy with a state of affairs where even just one person > finds my art of such value as to live with it—and suspect that that > situation may embody most of the transformative potential I find so > lacking in the art market. But maybe I've misunderstood the nature > of markets or of the proposal. Depth of engagement is a quantifiable metric. And people cannot fall in love with the right art for them if they cannot find it in the market. The art market is the Sistine Chapel ceiling of the age of hedge fund managers and oil oligarchs. It performs the ideological function of high art, symbolically resolving the failings of the ideology of the ruling class: showing that which everybody knows to be true but for some reason does not see around them. Artworks made for this context are fetishes in the religious, Freudian and Marxist senses all-in-one. Viewed from an imaginary distant future they make corn dollies or radionic devices look like tricorders. Thank you for the feedback! - - Rob. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJToJNMAAoJECciMUAZd2dZS7IIAILNPTEM5xMu3/v11mmQKMMp /rwXaDHloH4SX3+Ch5hEXjsKKk4y9JqBk9iTXIqZ4tS7VicjLxPNZuYNRHNA5nQG tgBmysdIBziJSSjPd69Av3BKJNcPHd06ztXGTIivSZj7y2C5d7xldM3zdgauJcoJ 5OHVxpZczazKnYcf0mZZHEcozaAdxeaE7LFIjogwxrTsnCd+BBlkX3lWSnyABL3B H6PqqgRR8un06W8KRgtsgQmhGaW2Ro3qU0hls4YU82B5amyycJa7XStDinUYqBvZ pRxdzRU17ap+hH9bHTO0xtkqceNH1PNpqN/mhnuT3pjSFfMIKV5kn+gPnksCxSo= =PuaH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
