Art Value: Auction performative exhibition by artist Das Vegas.
Come to acquire and create artworks! "Art Value: Auction" is performed at The Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association art space - Sodu 4 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Artist Das Vegas (Vygandas Vegas Simbelis).
Art Value: Auction
The project "Art Value: Auction" is part of the larger "Art Value" project and is a series of art auctions where the viewer is encouraged to rethink the notion of the "artwork as a commodity". The project consists of creating a situation in which the buyer (art collector) of the artwork becomes a co-author of the work.
In such improvised situation of the art auction, the bidders compete for the highest price, but the finalised price becomes artwork's content, the numbers of the price get imprinted in the artwork. The sum the winners pay for the artwork gets printed on the paper by the mechanical calculator (or other financial means like a numerical stamp). This artwork in a shape of a receipt gets certified by a Certificate of Authenticity and signed by the artist. Valuation of artwork, numerical aesthetics and monetary value of the artwork get exposed in the process and results in the outcome.
Performances:
2019.10, solo exhibition, ART_VALUE: Auction performance and Plus Tax artworks , Das Vegas artist , SLA Art Space, Chelsea, New York, NY 10001, 2019.
Post gallery event "Art_Value: Network", Kaunas, Lithuania, 2019.
"Art_Value: Network" at Tallinn district gallery, Riga, Latvia, 2019.
Performance and artist talk at Kogo gallery, Tartu, Estonia, 2019.
Interpretative Digitality solo exhibition, R1-Reactor Hall, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.
Art Vilnius, International Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017.
The Art Bank, Kaunas Gallery Weekend 2017, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Valuation, solo exhibition by Das Vegas at Šiauliai City Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania, 2017.
4S/EASST 2016 conference: Science and Technology by Other Means. Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Artistic Research: Authorship as a Lens in Technology and the Arts, Barcelona, Spain.
Performed at MANIFESTA 11, THE EUROPEAN BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland, 2016.
Das Vegas, “Art Value: Auction” at Interdisciplinary Art Association "Sodu 4" art project space in Vilnius, Lithuania. Performance, neon lights, LED display, multimedia projector, mechanical calculator, auction props, acrylic paintings, stands, 2016.
Art Value
The “Art Value” project examines the human and its obsession for numbers. Through novel and advanced technologies, we turn the numbers into artworks and prove their uniqueness and authenticity. These artworks are generated by the users themselves and acquired and collected by them too. The participants of the project generate their personal artworks which later get certified through the blockchain distributed network. These digital artworks later get produced by artists (commissions) and the production process is supported by the platform.
Interactive blockchain based platform and crypto art project. Dapp, distributed website, generative art, cryptoart, numerical aesthetics, commissions of artworks, sales, crypto art tradign platform and art auctions. Produced by artist Das Vegas ( dr. Vygandas Simbelis ) in collaboration with a development team of designers and programmers, partners Royal Institute of Technology, KTH Innovation, research institute RISE.
Visit: www.ArtValue.org - Art Value platform.
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