[NetBehaviour] Selling software art

[Karl Heinz Jeron]

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" <patricksimons1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>     Are these art objects?!
>     patrick
>
>     On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com>
>     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
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> Simon Biggs
> Research Professor
> edinburgh college of art
> s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
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