Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-19 Thread Pall Thayer
The Maecenas thing has nothing to do with making art more accessible. It's about making investing in art more accessible. It's strictly about art as commodity rather than artifact. Speaking of non-existent artwork, the site I posted recently "Steal This CodeArt" celebrates the notion of

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-19 Thread marc.garrett
Hi Gretta, What a soulless slug this person must be. This is what I hate about the art world, and sadly - certain aspects of media art culture has shifted towards this direction, more than ever now. It's a double bind for artists -- to get a show one has to be nice to some of these assholes,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-19 Thread Pall Thayer
Now that I think about it, I could see ownership of ephemeral art becoming a thing... an investor is at a party and someone says, "We just bought a De Kooning. It's hanging in our living room." "Well, I just bought 5% in a Pall Thayer and it doesn't even exist any more." Top that! On Thu, Oct

[NetBehaviour] con/against text

2017-10-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/07/22/138513048/woman-pays-10-000-for-non-visible-work-of-art https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/8qvv9v/seeing-isnt-always-believing-when-it-comes-to-invisible-art https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2271/files/2017/06/CHING.pdf

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-19 Thread Edward Picot
Rob, As far as I'm concerned your help would be greatly appreciated. I've had several looks at Ethereum, but I don't feel at all confident that I could actually implement something and make it work. Your coloured art coins look as if they at least halfway there. Do I gather that you created