[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
>> > www.eca.ac.uk
>> > www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
>> >
>> > simon at littlepig.org.uk
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edinburgh college of art
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www.eca.ac.uk
www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
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www.littlepig.org.uk
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Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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