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February 08 2010

kewagi
21:15
“ Pass auf, dass dich der Hütchenspieler nicht abzockt, schau links und rechts bevor du über die Straße gehst, geh im Winter bei Minus 10 Grad nicht in Shorts und T-Shirt raus und kauf kein Crack bei Menschen, die Polizeiuniformen tragen. Für das alles sollte es mindestens eine Sensibilisierungskampagne geben. ”
— Safer Internet Day - fm4.ORF.at
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kewagi
15:34
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→ www.spiegel.de
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kewagi
15:14
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→ lifebooks.tumblr.com
via Lifebooks
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February 04 2010

kewagi
12:15
too soon.
kewagi
11:59

A Sculpture That Perpetually Sells Itself On eBay

A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter

Artist Caleb Larsen has created an art sculpture which, when connected to the Internet, perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay.

Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perpetually attempting to auction itself on eBay.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

The sculpture, entitled “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter“, recently sold on eBay for $6,350.00 and is now being shipped to its next “owner”.

Writer Andrew Sargus Klein offers some additional context for the sculpture in this excellent post at SpliceToday, in which he references both Baudrillard and Hirst, and explores contemporary concepts of ownership and worth:

“A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” is tangibly linked, via Ethernet, to the intangible world of taste, aesthetics and worth. It doesn’t matter if the work becomes astronomically valuable—you’re legally required to keep putting it up on eBay once a week until someone else buys it. The argument is you can’t own anything conceptual, neither in copyright or theoretical terms, and the artwork’s logistics ensure that no third party—the highly ridiculous art market—can change that.

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kewagi
11:57
I guess old mister Gompertz lost his glasses again.
kewagi
09:12

falter.at - Der verratene Held

Jovan Mirilo half, die Kriegsgräuel von Srebrenica aufzudecken. Nun erklärt ihn ein dubioses Gutachten des Bundesasylamts zum Schwindler. Experten warnen vor der Abschiebung in den Tod
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February 03 2010

kewagi
11:04
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February 01 2010

January 31 2010

kewagi
14:19
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kewagi
14:17
*cough* *cough* great company I'm in. :)
kewagi
12:00

Top 5 artists this week

  1. Black Eyed Peas 
  2. Apple Inc. 
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