there was a satirical net art piece online a few years ago that rated
net artists as if they were stock commodities. I think their
valuation was based on the amount of times they posted to a select
group of net art mailing lists per day.
cf: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/socialcircles/
then of course there's this:
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/ranking/paragraph/4/lang/
and this:
http://www.artistprotection.com
Amateur porn pricing schemes? Heck, why not banner ads? Or might
the medium of net art be fundamentally resistive to assimilation into
the contemporary commercial art world?
cf:
http://www.afsnitp.dk/onoff/Texts/dietzwhyhavether.html
best,
curt
At 3:18 AM +0000 3/4/05, Saul Albert wrote:
>You might want to take a look at Heath Bunting's recent list of
>works for sale,
>many of which are web-based works:
>
>http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/cv/projects/sale_price.pl
>
>The site looks static (ie. the prices don't seem to change) but the fact that
>this is a perl script rather than a static web page, and that the sale page
>itself is on sale indicates there may well be something clever happening under
>the surface somewhere. I couldn't say what this cleverness is
>though.. possibly
>some dynamic reflection of the artist's speculative collector value based on
>statistical assessment of who-knows-what process or processes.
>
>As far as I know, http://art.teleportacia.org/ is still the first commercial
>net.art gallery. Maybe get in touch with Olia Lialina to ask for an
>estimate of
>the value of the works on show - I believe that kind of valuation is what
>happens in commercial art sectors. Since many national collections now include
>net-based pieces, it seems perfectly likely that careful valuation by experts
>in the field would stand up to the market forces.
>
>However, the lack of established 'best practice' in this domain (amazing it
>hasn't been tied down yet) is a real opportunity to do something exciting and
>interesting with your pricing structure.
>
>If you want the valuations to reflect anything relevant to the work, you might
>want to take your cue from the true innivators of Internet culture and
>commerce: the pornographers.
>
>Many 'amateur' porn sites actually allow self-documenting models to upload
>pictures of themselves, and then get paid kickbacks in proportion to
>the reveue
>those images generate in advertising and click-throughs. Perhaps in this
>context that kind of commercial model makes more sense than Patrick's very
>sensible suggestion that since there is only a negligible cost involved in
>distribution, that the most efficient transation of value would remain in a
>reputation economy.
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