[NetBehaviour] Selling software art

[marc garrett]

Hi Patrick & Simon,

Is it an object before it turns into a consumer-based commodity, or after?

marc


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/~palli/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/~palli/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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