PIA'S 2016 ADAD1002

Here are some extra important details for the submission of assessment 3. Please make sure you follow them.

1. Please ensure before upload that all students in the group have their full names included on the document.

2. Please make sure students use the following format for the file name:

Tutorname_Groupname_Student'sLastName.pdf

eg. vanGelder_FutureCities_Philips.pdf

Sean Kerr: Bruce is in the garden; so someone is in the garden

Sean Kerr’s publication is an interesting creative representation of his experimental practice across graphic design, image making, installation and electronics.

http://www.publiccollectors.org/

“The Most Unwanted Music”, Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier, 1997

This project proposes an alternative financial model based on a Peer-to-Peer social architecture. It offers an innovative participatory system using counterfeit virtual money by issuing forged VISA credit cards. The project introduced Gift Finance, a monetary policy based on free universal credit without interest. Gift Finance is the conceptualization of the democratic creation of money by ordinary people in order to redistribute wealth in society. The website P2PGiftCredit.com allows people to generate unique virtual card numbers and send them to others via digital platforms. A limited edition of physical plastic P2P Gift Credit Cards are available by request at P2PGiftCredit.com, and they have been distributed worldwide via mail, in art exhibitions and public interventions. from here

Beabois explains:

Twenty thousand dollars, consisting of one hundred dollar bills, was presented as a simple sculptural object for auction through a fine art auction house in Sydney. The material/money for the work was sourced from a “New Work Established grant“ from the Visual Arts and Craft section of the Australia council for the Arts. The currency used in the creation of the work was not altered or modified and retained its potential function and value as currency. However each hundred dollar bill had its serial number recorded to validate it as an authentic part of the work, thereby instilling a cultural value on top of the financial value. The tension between the economic value of the material against the cultural value of the art object was explored through the process of the financial transaction enabled by the auction.