[NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Edward Picot]

Oops! Apologies for posting this twice. I thought the first one hadn't 
worked.

On 13/10/17 19:10, Edward Picot wrote:
> Can't we do something with this? Couldn't we create a conceptual work 
> of art that didn't actually exist at all - we could use some ideas 
> from Curt Cloninger's 'Essay About Nothing' to represent it - and 
> market shares in it via the Blockchain? Proceeds to Furtherfield, 
> unless the value went above a trillion dollars, in which case I want a 
> cut.
>
> Edward
>
> On 11/10/17 18:56, Rob Myers wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 12:58 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
>>> Perfectly put Helen!
>>> Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my 
>>> idea of utopia.
>>
>> """Marly studied the quotations. Pollock was down again. This, she 
>> supposed, was the aspect of art that she had the most difficulty 
>> understanding. Picard, if that was the man's name, was speaking with 
>> a broker in New York, arranging the purchase of a certain number of 
>> "points" of the work of a particular artist. A "point" might be 
>> defined in any number of ways, depending on the medium involved, but 
>> it was almost certain that Picard would never see the works he was 
>> purchasing. If the artist enjoyed sufficient status, the originals 
>> were very likely crated away in some vault, where no one saw them at 
>> all. Days or years later, Picard might pick up that same phone and 
>> order the broker to sell. """
>>
>> - William Gibson, "Count Zero", 1986.
>>
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