Speculative: Futures, Origins, & Everyday Staples

Finally finished the video documentation for Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples. Will be releasing the final fully mixed live sound pieces hopefully soon...

It's been awhile since I've posted. I've been working a lot flying here and there, but I'm back to work on finalizing mixes for Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples. Hopefully all the mixing will be done by the end of August. Stay tuned.

Some photo documentation of the closing of, Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples, shot by Steve Wong.

Note this recording is missing the last few minutes. You'll have to stay tuned for those ;-)

One unfortunate note, we have not made it to our goal of mining enough Bitcoin to purchase a churro for the artists involved. Maybe some kind hearted Bitcoiners out there will contribute to the cause and get the artists some churros. Do it for the artists in what may be the first ever gallery show about Bitcoin. Send BTC to: 13j5S7C96w9Y5yzazScoAHbMQG4LNqJyug

A few pics from first run of Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples: The Future.

For this weeks section on the speculative future of bitcoin we will be adding in some news ticker. Enjoy.

Status update. We're almost at 3300 blocks. Probably need about 6000-7000 to hit our target for the Churro purchase.

One visitor this morning had this to say, "That's some trippy shit, bro. What a weird time we live in." Yesterday, we had a Canadian IT guy wander in who chatted for awhile and said he wanted to link up on Linkedin and Skype sometime when he gets back to Canada. Also, yesterday we had a German mathematics PhD student come in and stay for a long time talking about the currency, art, local German politics, surveillance, and programming. He was quite pleasant.

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Preparing for Week 2. Cone of evil reverb. Kerstin Hovland and Robert Dansby prepping for the the Thursday night show.

Looks like the mining operation for the churros will be disrupted. The Bitminter Bitcoin mining pool that MinerOne is in is getting DDoS'd right now and has been taken down. Things with this show continue to get more and more real with every passing day.

First performance of Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples: Origins recorded live from E-12 Olvera Street in Los Angeles. Performed by Emery C. Martin, Robert Dansby, MinerOne, Tec9, and featuring Samuel Bruce's, The Walls Are Full Of Money. Created with Processing, Ableton Live, and various web scraped data sources for Bitcoin, copper, and other commodity prices and exchange rates.

Bitchurro Sounds - Generative sound produced by the financial fluctuations of 7 indices related to Bitcoin: MtGOX USD exchange rate, Euro exchange rate, Miner Index, Bitcoin added per day, Bitcoin Market Cap in USD, Total Bitcoin in Circulation, and the Pizza Index. The entire data set is looped and outputs a new tone every 100ms which equates to 5 minutes of real time. A new value for all 7 indices is added every 5 minutes, therefore the data set continues to grow over the course of the show. Additionally every time new data is added all values are re-mapped to account for the change in ranges of values and their relationship to one another. Built in Processing with Minim and OSC.

I think the honey badger just might make an appearance next week.

From June 13 through the 29th, CalArts School of Film/Video faculty member and alumnus Emery Martin (Film/Video BFA 08) curates an exhibit on the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency Bitcoin called Speculative: Futures, Origins,…

Tomorrow we open the show but today Robert Dansby and I were running through the first 2/3rds of the set for tomorrow night. The proper speakers are in place and it's sounds good. Final tweaks tonight.