[NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Gretta Louw]

I’ve been spending a lot of time puzzling over social media lately and think (horrifyingly) that the value of the latter is increasingly measured in instagram followers - we’re not yet at the point of openly sponsored posts, but indirectly I think it’s already happening… 




> On 11. Oct 2017, at 09:58, ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org> wrote:
> 
> Perfectly put Helen!
> Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my idea of utopia.
> 
> I have a question brewing - that I want to run by everyone - about the value of art and artists now and in the future.
> 
> If anyone can tell me what that question is I'd be very interested to hear what it is;)
> 
> Otherwise...soon...
> :! 
> 
> On 09/10/17 09:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:
>> agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a financial pin like a dead butterfly ...
>> 
>> On 07.10.2017 02:29, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>> 
>>> I noticed this - 
>>> 
>>> "Maecenas touts itself as a blockchain platform that, according to its creators, will democratise access to fine art. For the first time, the Maecenas website enthuses, technology will allow investors, collectors and owners to exchange shares in paintings and sculptures instantly, akin to the way stocks of a company are traded today." 
>>> 
>>> This does NOT democratise access to art; it's nothing more than a secure way to protect and exchange's one investment - which plays into the notion of enclaving described in Mike Davis' City of Quartz (think it was written in the 80s). Art has to RESIST enclaving, unless one accepts useless decoration and connoisseurship as the only form of art worth considering. 
>>> 
>>> One of the amazing things about Furtherfield is, at least as far as I can tell, it itself is a form of resistance! I'd thank God for this, but given the state of things on the planet, I wouldn't want to burden Her with more communication. 
>>> 
>>> - Alan 
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