Value of Values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain (video)

VALUE OF VALUE OF VALUES
TRANSACTIONAL ART ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

Human abstractions live in our mind

Human Values LOVE, POWER, PEACE, KNOWLEDGE, are human abstractions

If making art is giving shape to ideas,

we can shape human values directly from our mind

Controlling the form just by thinking

Brain-Computer Interaction (BCI) makes neuro-design possible

the resulting liquid shape is like THOUGHT IN MOTION

 

BRAIN FACTORY and BRAIN WORKERS

Value of Values (VoV) is an art project

that helps us to better understand human values

Value of Values is exhibited all around the world

The visitors of the show give shape to values

Visitors are Brain Workers who own the model they have created

Models become “VoV” tokens registered to the Blockchain

The models become “VoV” tokens

registered to the Blockchain

Brain workers get a Value of Values wallet

and scan the VoV QR code

HAPPINESS07740 VoV is now part of the collection

The collector can decide to keep it, to sell it or to barter it

The value of HAPPINESS07740 VoV will depend on the trading

 

TRANSACTIONAL POETRY vs TRADING OF VALUES

Bartering PEACE to get MONEY is not a simple financial act,

It is a symbolic act,

converted into TRANSACTIONAL POETRY

Transactional Poetry generates a series of ETHICAL STATEMENTS

Inspired by actual transactions

If you give away MONEY for LOVE

it may become: “YOU ALWAYS NEED MORE MONEY TO FIND LOVE”

trading defines also the ethical profile of people, cities and countries

a collection expresses collectors’ priority in life.

Trading Charts show us how Values resist to market forces

 

the SCIENTIST, the READER and the INTERPRETING

On the Periodic Table of Values

The SCIENTIST keeps classifying the Values according to how they are collected

Giving shape to Values is also a form of writing

Brain-inspired VoV characters are like new written words to say the unutterable

The READER (AI) strives to decipher them

Matching the VoV with existing Chinese characters

the READER‘s findings are like written harmonics altering the original meaning of the Value

The INTERPRETER (AI) tells us how this conjunction of words makes full sense

 

REIFICATION of VALUES

VoV characters become valuable symbols, like calligraphy on scrolls

They represent our Values, so they can be displayed as our beliefs

They can be worn, in fashion, and tell the others about us

Although VoV tokens are abstract models

They can become physical

They can be reified, commodified as objects or artworks,

collectors can now speculate on the actual Value of Values

 

CREDITS:

VALUE OF VALUES

Transactional Art Project

by Maurice Benayoun With Tobias Klein, Nicolas Mendoza, Jean-Baptiste Barrière

Editing: Yip Ka Man, Charlie

 

Coming soon

Morphogenesis of Values Transactional Art Show

 

Curated by Ann Mak

Produced by Osage Art Foundation, Agnes Lin

 

with views of VoV exhibitions and events :

MICROWAVE FESTIVAL, HK CITY HALL

DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL 2019, RETRANSENS, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TAIPEI

LUX AETERNA, ISEA2019, AAC, GWANGJU, KOREA

ISEA2019 X VOV IVO, ART CENTER NABI, SEOUL KOREA

BAUHAUS100, MEET, PALAZZO BUONACCORSI MACERATA, ITALY

VRSO, LAVAL VIRTUAL 2012, FRANCE

NUIT BLANCHE PARIS

QUT MUSEUM OF ART, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

NEURO DESIGN LAB, SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

With the support of:

Asia Society Hong Kong Centre Poem Communications ACIM, The City University of Hong Kong, SCM MindSpaces, MindSpaces HK, S+T+Arts Lighthouse, Horizon2020EU                    

more on www.v-o-v.io

 

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