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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>When artists express
</b>interest in blockchain, it is largely aesthetic. I’ve seen a few blockchain miners in galleries. Usually, artists tend to aestheticise the workers, prettying them up within a commodity fetish. That’s fine, but the way blockchain’s own sculptural vocabularies
form and proliferate under pressured conditions is aesthetically novel and interesting by itself. For instance, the miners tended to evolve away from the computer cases, opening out and through rack-mounted forms toward these open shelf-like frames that start
to appear like servers. The underlying ideological frame of bitcoin is aesthetically interesting too. If you look at it one way, bitcoin was a spiritual attack on capitalism, in much the same way as coinage itself was an attack on the Indigenous Māori world.
Do you want to hear a story? The last time I visited Auckland Museum, I was struck by an object in the entrance way. I didn’t even go into the Museum; I just stood there. Just in through the entranceway. Encased in a plexiglass vitrine, there is a large carved
bowl. It’s called a kumete. It’s one of those large ornately carved bowls with the expanding stomach of a figure as the main round part of the bowl. But the story it depicts is only half conventional. It is missing a key figure: Pōtaka-tawhiti, a dog, famous
in Māori tradition, who after being consumed by the rival chief Uenuku, cries out from the expanding stomach ultimately causing us to make the long journey to Aotearoa New Zealand in the Te Arawa canoe. This in-between version is in the Māori section, but
it is slightly stood-away from it. The placement makes you think this is not a real kumete or not a high-status object. Depending on your frame, this is true. As far as I understand, the half-caste kumete was made by the Museum itself in the 1960s, so in a
certain sense it’s appropriative, and it has a coin-slot as it used to be the donation box for the Museum. What then is the reason for the bloating stomach if it is no longer the spirit of a dog? Perhaps it is the coins. Remember, ‘Bitcoin is a river where
if you catch a fish everyone can see that you’ve caught a fish, and more importantly you can’t put it back.’</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">excerpt from Roman Mitch' doctorate '</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><s><i>The Artwork is Always Right</i></s></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">' (2018)</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">also on show through his '</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><i>2014 Blockchain Study, Thirty-Five Times</i></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">' at p0.nz/i gallery, for MoneyLab #12:
Viral Tokenization; along with other works by Billy Rennekamp, </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure); font-family: Aldrich; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ₘₒₕᵢₙᵢ</em></span><span style="margin:0px"><em style="max-width:var(--global--spacing-measure);font-family:Aldrich;font-size:20px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><img class="emoji" alt="🐢" style="border:none !important;height:1em !important;max-width:100%;vertical-align:-0.1em !important;display:inline !important;box-shadow:none !important;width:1em !important;margin:0px 0.07em !important;background:none !important;padding:0px !important" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/1f422.svg"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></em></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="max-width: var(--global--spacing-measure); font-family: Aldrich; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OoakosiMo</em></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> , </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Laurence
Olsen-Smith, neurocolor, Eric Barry Drasin, Marika Pratley, Fabio Morreale, and Ben Nolan.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i><b>disclaimer</b>:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">To remain congruent with several topics and themes under discussion for the coming conference and exhibition, there will be no formal registration possible nor necessary for joining either in person or via the internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you come to the gallery on Friday, or to Te Aro campus on Saturday, you will be provided with the (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>at current alert level</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">) optional COVID19
contact tracing QR codes, and we will be operating under the now common '</span><a href="https://covid19.govt.nz/business-and-money/businesses/doing-business-at-alert-level-1/" title="https://covid19.govt.nz/business-and-money/businesses/doing-business-at-alert-level-1/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Alert
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">You can use the Zoom Webinar links with or without a Zoom account (all registration features will be switched off); if prompted for an email address feel free to use your favourite burner. We have opted to stay with Zoom as it
currently provides the best trade-offs in terms of amount of people who already use this service vs core functionality vs what works in our location, while wanting to cater to an international audience as well (and not making you sign up for even more products
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">We will also have anonymous Q&A switched on in Zoom in case you feel you need this to participate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are a small team running this event 'no-budget' (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>besides the occasional p&d group philanthropy surrounding p0.nz/i gallery</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">), so please bear
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are extremely grateful to all our participants and collaborators for dedicating their time and effort to what we hope will be a great weekend :)</span></div>
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