It's often been suggested to me that I try selling prints of some of my more visual pieces but I can't do it. In these pieces there is no final state... they run... on and on and on. It would completely defy the nature of the work to attempt to capture a single moment for a print.
I did sell a piece a few years ago that was installed on a computer that was set up solely to run that piece. It was a piece that used imagery from a live webcam. About 3 months later the webcam stopped working. I don't know if they ever got it running again. On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:47 PM Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/11/15 03:23 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: > > > > My motivation behind this decision was my belief that the value of an > > artwork should not be based on scarcity. > > +1 > > > If I had used expensive > > materials or if making multiples was labour intensive then I could see > > more justification in raising the price and producing less. However, > > in my case they were relatively inexpensive digital prints and so > > making multiples was less of a problem. > > Treat it as tipping or patronage in return for a touch of the artist's > aura? > > > This presents a problem if I want to make more money from things like > prints. > > You can always do prints with those nicer materials (archival paper/inks > etc.) and charge more for those. > > Or you can sign prints or provide certificates of authenticity - > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/22348355411/ > > There are several startups that do blockchain-based editions of digital > works. ascribe for example: > > https://www.ascribe.io/ > > (I've met some of the people from ascribe but don't have any involvement > with the project. Other services are available etc.) > > that takes the prints out of the equation altogether. :-) > > > Crowdfunding (patreon, kickstarter etc) has been suggested in the past > > but that is more about supporting the artist, not about making money > > directly from the artwork itself. > > You could crowdfund the edition and have the prints as backer rewards at > various levels. > > Crowdfunding works best with things that are events with a narrative > people can get involved with, so you'd probably need to do annual or > biannual crowdfunding events for projects or (groups of) editions. > > You could also sell shares in a work/project/edition in return for e.g. > sponsorship mentions at shows (like at the end of a crowdfunded movie or > book). > > - Rob. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- P Thayer, Artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org
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