[-empyre-] Response to Anna: Nick Knouf, MAICgregator

[Craig Saper]

Hi Anna,

Yes, my question was based on Christiane’s note that "it does depend on how you define ‘finance’” — and eToy is an excellent example since it concerns finance but also institution building. And, the latter also includes works that seem to resist finance-capital like Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument — built and run by a network of residents — including a computer room and radio station. 

Finance is always taught in the context of management — and to those in the so-called “finance world” they are at least in their non-cynical mode using finance capital to build capitalist structures (factories, office buildings, machines, transportation systems, information systems, managing eyeballs and systems and networks, etc.) 

So, Finance is imbricated upon (at least the charade) of building and managing vast networks.

And, my question is who is working in that area of net-art … who thinks of their work as “finance” (maybe like Bogg’s Bills) and who thinks of “finance” in their net-art projects as part of institution building like eToy?







On Sep 16, 2016, at 10:43 PM, Anna Munster <a.munster at unsw.edu.au> wrote:

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Hi Craig,
Can you say a bit more about ‘management net.art’ - do you mean, for example, eToy. corporation type projects? 
cheers Anna


Anna Munster
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Art and Design
UNSW
P.O Box 259
Paddington
NSW 2021
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a.munster at unsw.edu.au
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> On 17 Sep 2016, at 4:08 AM, Craig Saper <csaper at umbc.edu> wrote:
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> Could we push the delineation a bit more and ask about the distinction between finance net-art-works and management-art net-art projects? Is anyone involved in critical-management net-art? Or, has lists like those applied in previous answers to Anna’s queries about finance net-art?
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> On Sep 16, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Christiane Paul, Curatorial <Christiane_Paul at whitney.org> wrote:
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> It depends on how you want to define and delineate network and finance --  the ToyWar ultimately was a project very related to finance / the stock market, and eToy of course early on used a revenue model based on shares. 
> GWEI (https://www.paolocirio.net/work/gwei/) and Paolo Cirio's Loophole for all (https://paolocirio.net/work/loophole-for-all/) also are networked finance projects....
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