[NetBehaviour] Selling software art

Simon Biggs s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
Tue Nov 18 15:26:08 CET 2008


That¹s pretty clear, if you assume a demand side analysis of economic value.
What about a supply side led analysis?

Regards

Simon


On 18/11/08 14:22, "Karl Heinz Jeron" <mail at khjeron.de> wrote:

> 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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>> >
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Simon Biggs
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Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201


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