[NetBehaviour] Selling software art
Geert Dekkers
geert at nznl.com
Wed Nov 19 14:30:18 CET 2008
Hey Pall
It seems I was using an old address that bounced back to me. So as I
don't have a current address, could you contact me please?
(Because I'm interested in buying a set irrespective of their status
as art objects :))
Geert
On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Pall Thayer wrote:
> I would say that in the case of mass-produced items, then yes, it's a
> commodity if there's demand. But in the case of art, it's a commodity
> if there's a price.
>
> Pall
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:22 PM, 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
>>>
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>>>
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>>> Research Professor
>>> edinburgh college of art
>>> s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
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>>>
>>> simon at littlepig.org.uk
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>>>
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