Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread ruth catlow
Perfectly put Helen! Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my idea of utopia. I have a question brewing - that I want to run by everyone - about the value of art and artists now and in the future. If anyone can tell me what that question is I'd be very interested

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread Gretta Louw
I’ve been spending a lot of time puzzling over social media lately and think (horrifyingly) that the value of the latter is increasingly measured in instagram followers - we’re not yet at the point of openly sponsored posts, but indirectly I think it’s already happening… > On 11. Oct 2017,

[NetBehaviour] two women and the network of everything

2017-10-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
two women and the network of everything http://www.alansondheim.org/aud91.jpg everything is forked, the two women, the tree, the pipes on the bag, snaked and i traveled and was in another state with two women, whose brothers had a way of being _awry_ or weird here. i'm sitting next to the two

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread Annie Abrahams
value of art now and in the future . ? @ Ruth, as soon as art becomes something else than a very personal quest, it becomes something else, an economical, political, social, family asset and then it's interest can only be discussed in that particular frame @Gretta in my opinion you talk

Re: [NetBehaviour] An Abstraction?

2017-10-11 Thread Anthony Stephenson
Hi Pall, Sorry if I came across as being critical (it's for that reason that I've abandoned a number of other correspondences here), but I do appreciate the effort and wit that you put into these pieces. I'll only add that after submitting I realized that I said "non-figurative" when I meant

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread helen varley jamieson
what do you mean by "value", ruth? value to whom? monetary value, cultural value, nostalgic value, personal value ... ?? & then, what do you mean by "art" and "artists" ... h ;) On 11.10.2017 10:51, Gretta Louw wrote: > I’ve been spending a lot of time puzzling over social media lately and >

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread helen varley jamieson
it is all ephemeral, but/and archiving (something, somehow) is still important. but only in moderate proportions. On 11.10.2017 04:42, Rob Myers wrote: > "Look upon my [net]works, ye mighty..." > > Here's a list of dead blockchains. > > >From 2014. > >

[NetBehaviour] CryptoParty in East London - Monday 16th Oct

2017-10-11 Thread Fabio Natali
Hi All, Just a quick email to let you know that, as @CryptoPartyLDN, we are organising a CryptoParty in East London on Monday 16th Oct. More details about the event: https://www.cryptoparty.in/london More background on what a CryptoParty is: https://www.cryptoparty.in/ Hope this can be of

[NetBehaviour] Patrick Tresset exhibition PV and conversation with Dr Nick Lambert

2017-10-11 Thread Irini Papadimitriou
Dear All I am very pleased to announce our new exhibition, Whilst we were here... by Patrick Tresset, which opens at Watermans on Wednesday 18 October. I hope you can join us for the launch event. *In Conversation: Patrick Tresset and Dr Nick Lambert * Wednesday 18 October, 6.30-8.30pm FREE

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread ruth catlow
Ha hah! what do you mean by "value", ruth? value to whom? monetary value, cultural value, nostalgic value, personal value ... ?? value to anyone with a stake in the question and all of the above kinds of value and more (please proliferate) & then, what do you mean by "art" and "artists"

Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

2017-10-11 Thread Rob Myers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 12:58 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Perfectly put Helen! > Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my > idea of utopia. """Marly studied the quotations. Pollock was down again. This, she supposed, was the aspect of art that she had the most