Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has partnered on a new art project that utilizes a pair of newly-minted ethereum-based tokens.
Motherboard reported Friday that Ai - well-known for his criticism of China's Communist government as well as his art installations and photos - is working with Irish conceptual artist Kevin Abosch.
Together, Ai and Abosch have created two new tokens, freely distributable, in an effort to illustrate how worth is perceived and imbued within modern society.
It's an area that Abosch has already been working in - bridging the worlds of art and cryptocurrency through his work - as the New York Times previously reported.
The project, dubbed PRICELESS, involves twin tokens, one of which is made publicly available to the extent that, in theory, every person on the planet could own a fraction.
The other token, according to Motherboard, is locked away and inaccessible to anyone.
"It's not about a potential for creating art rather, to question the existing system and the potential to create a new system outside of the established one," Ai told Motherboard.
Wallet addresses holding nominal amounts of the PRCLS token have already been printed on paper and sold to buyers, with each wallet address representing different "Priceless moments" shared between Ai and Abosch, illustrating how the token can represent value.
Ai revealed in an interview with Motherboard that, for him, blockchain represents "An opportunity to set up a new system that could dismantle the old system, or at least offer a new possibility for communication."
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Artist Ai Weiwei Uses Ethereum to Make Art About 'Value'
gepubliceerd op Aug 17, 2018
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