[NetBehaviour] For what it's worth, by Pall Thayer

[Pall Thayer]

Thanks, Alan.

The whole concept of tying the "value" of this piece to donations (which
affect the length and complexity of it) is intended as a bit of a joke. The
"system" that guides the work is already fully created so that, strictly
speaking, the donations and therefore, additional drawings and sounds are
not really adding "value" to the piece. The joke is that it's worth
whatever people are willing to throw at it.

Also, the fact that the source code is all made available adds another
twist. Someone could set up their own instance and make up a bunch of
transaction data to make the audio-visual part more interesting. This goes
back to the point that all of the value is already there... in the code.

Best r.
Pall

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:38 PM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

>
>
> Count me in on this one; it also goes, at least in terms of music, to open
> source; people expect free music, period. So for Avatar Woman, we had 8-9
> absolutely stunning reviews - and over a six month period, sold 3 copies.
> People just listened to the samples, that was it.
>
> Loved Paul's work myself, by the way - Alan
>
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Edward Picot wrote:
>
> > This is excellent! Really well-conceived and well-executed. The audio
> was so
> > painful to my ears that I had to snatch my headphones off, but that's not
> > really a criticism. To me, the animated 'splash' which appears in the
> middle
> > of the screen resembles both someone throwing a pot of paint at the
> artworks,
> > and those complex spirograph-style patterns of fine lines which appear on
> > banknotes.
> >
> > We keep coming back to this theme, don't we? The fact that some
> 'established'
> > art is worth millions whereas there are talented artists languishing on
> all
> > sides who can't make the price of a busfair out of their work. I suppose
> to
> > the general public it might come across as self-absorbed bellyaching, but
> > actually it's a reflection of the gaps between the haves and the
> have-nots in
> > society at large.
> >
> > - Edward
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