A tool to deceive and slaughter
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- Anders
Description: This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay.
- calculator0
I haven't seen or heard of anything like this before. Maybe it's the first piece of truly modern art in the last 20 years?
- there are quite a few people doing interesting things with electronics + art ..lukus_W
- is that a fact?calculator
- Mau0
wow
- ismith0
Interesting.
- ukit0
This is brilliant. And he has 100% positive feedback on 46 transactions which is quite impressive as well.
- ItalianStallion0
Art is market or market is art?
- jamble0
Clever idea, can it double as a lolcube though?
- janne760
well,
- lukus_W0
Genius - I love everything about this project.
- jolly_rotten0
The title doesn't make any sense and neither does the sculpture. Its not a tool, it doesn't deceive since the teleological rationale is a transaction and a contract, and finally there is no slaughter. The artist apes the Hirst's practice. This work also reliant upon the network and grid for its existence which handicaps its pretensions to objecthood. A far more rigorous and less legal approach to transactions is Danica Phelps. She at least puts her skin in the game.
- gfyjolly_rotten
- you just told yourself to 'go fuck yourself'? makes senselambsy
- he's going nuts.formula
- Anders0
More projects here: http://www.caleblarsen.com
- lukus_W0
There is a deception that is inherent to the process of placing value on an object. There is a slaughter (a massacre, metaphorically speaking) when this deception reaches it's tipping point.. and the associated financial market collapses.
I think that good art should stimulate the viewer and provoke thought. I also like art that explores the immediate themes and situations that inhabit our societies. For me, this piece achieves all of those things.
@jolly_rotten;
> This work also reliant upon the network and grid for its existence
> which handicaps its pretensions to objecthood.I think this is a very pretentious and nonsensical statement. Anyway, I would argue that it's reliance upon a network is integral to the piece. I think it speaks of interlinked systems, feedback loops and financially autonomous systems that lead us towards fated outcomes.
- reliance on the network makes it a stupid telephone not an work of art.
if something is reified that means value is obvious: no deception.jolly_rotten - the value is obvious: no deception.
jolly_rotten - good art should provoke thought? well, bad art can provoke thought too and so can a sharp in the eye.
jolly_rotten - I don't think we're going to agree on this one ;)lukus_W
- It's not about our opinionjolly_rotten
- (in your opinion ... )lukus_W
- have a seat, son.jolly_rotten
- did you hear that son? do what jolly says. he's got it all figured out.lambsy
- reliance on the network makes it a stupid telephone not an work of art.
- jazmine0
i thought the title was funny, a nice juxtaposition to the fact it's a plain black box that doesn't do anything. (i guess the sleekness could have sort of that mysterious/menacing quality reminiscent of the monolith in 2001. though, having the ethernet plug sticking out of the side kind of ruins that.)
the idea of it perpetually selling itself is interesting. reminds me of old stories of cursed objects, (ie monkey's paw, hope diamond) where the object passes from owner to owner, with a wake of destruction in it's path. well, missing out on the destruction part though.
- Hmm, at $2.6k USD I think the destruction references the wallet =Przrffglyr
- spendogg0
if you buy it and dont connect it to the internet to do its thing, it ceases to be art.
- or does it?shitehawke
- if you don't connect it, does the artist buy it back from you?jazmine
- If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around...ukit
- shitehawke0
It looks pretty much like my lacie hard drive. The only difference seems to be that this is is actually able to connect to the internet when it says it will.
- rzrffglyr0
I think it's cool, be it art or a well marketed product. I understand the criticism and art is meant to be criticized. However the undertone I interpret saying "let's see if I can get away with this shit!" I find appealing alone, and isn't that what a lot of art basically attempts. lawl
- bad artists try stupid shit all the time.jolly_rotten
- a lot of highly valued art is also stupid shit IMHOrzrffglyr
- value and art not always alignedjolly_rotten
- Corvo20
It's not art - if you steal it from a museum it'll stop working :P
- morilla0
I fucking hate this kind of shit. Buffoons, the lot of them.
- duckofrubber0
This guy's got a real money-making racket! Love it.
