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The Terror and Thrill of Potential at Rhizome’s Seven on Seven

by Paddy Johnson on May 6, 2015
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A report on Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference. More ambitious than ever. Results still a total gamble. Amazing.

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This Week’s Must-see Art Events: Seven on Seven or Sex Terrorists?

by Michael Anthony Farley and Corinna Kirsch on April 27, 2015
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Plenty of events for vampires and sun-lovers alike!

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Rhizome’s Seven on Seven Participants Announced

by Paddy Johnson on April 7, 2014
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Get ready for some conversation!

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Rhizome’s Seven on Seven: Cards on the Table

by Paddy Johnson on April 26, 2013
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Rhizome’s Seven on Seven is, by definition, a crap shoot. The conference runs with the basic premise that by pairing seven technologists with seven artists and sticking them in a room together for 24 hours, a few creative sparks might fly. The following day, Rhizome hosts a six hour long conference in which the pairs are given 30 minutes each to present their collaborative work. The results are predictably mixed. Some projects fail, many have potential, but almost none amount to anything at all. Acknowledging this, Seven on Seven Moderator John Michael Boling quickly conceded during his opening remarks that “the main deliverable here is conversation.”

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Two Sevenths of Seven on Seven

by Anthony Espino on April 23, 2012
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“Artists are the ones who are here to… explain what the technologists are doing, or at least contextualize, and make this [work] make sense,” exclaimed public intellectual and technology writer Douglas Rushkoff in his opening keynote on Saturday at Rhizome's Seven on Seven. Now in its third year, the art and technology conference pairs seven artists with seven technologists. They're given 24 hours to collaborate, and a lot of hyperbole to live up to.

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AFC’s Seven on Seven Challenge: Artist or Technologist?

by Art Fag City on April 23, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON artists_or_technologist? How good are we at identifying artists within a crowd of technologists? I asked myself this question at Rhizome’s Seven on Seven last weekend, a conference asking technologists and artists to pair up and create a work of art in 24 hours. Everyone looked like an artist. In the interest […]

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Rhizome’s Seven on Seven a Success

by Art Fag City on April 21, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON David Karp and Ryan Trecartin at Rhizome’s Seven on Seven You know a show’s a success when even its flaws have their charm. This is the case in Rhizome’s Seven on Seven, a conference organized by Fred Benenson, John Michael Boling, John Borthwick, Lauren Cornell, and Peter Rojas matching seven artists […]

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Seven on Seven at The New Museum This Saturday

by Art Fag City on April 14, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Aaron Koblin, The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to “draw a sheep facing to the left.” Animations of each sheep’s creation may be viewed at TheSheepMarket.com Art-Tech weekend here I come! Rhizome’s Seven on Seven takes […]

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Seven on Seven: Where Art and Technology Actually Meet

by Art Fag City on February 10, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Tauba Auerbach, Here and Now/And Nowhere, 2009, Installation view, Crumple VII, Auerglass, Fold II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Deitch Projects. Image via: Tauba Auerbach TED Conference organizers responsible for their limp selection of artists working with technology could stand to take a look at Rhizome’s Seven on Seven at the […]

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Explain Me: Related Utopias—Bitcoin Economies and the Art World

by Paddy Johnson on May 1, 2018
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This week on Explain Me, William Powhida and Paddy Johnson talk with artist Kevin McCoy about Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Monegraph. This episode is your ultimate bitcoin/blockchain/monegraph explainer.


LINKS 

Monegraph

Seven on Seven, 2014

Public Key/Private Key

READING LIST  

Hito Steyerl – If you don’t have bread, eat Art!
Does Digital Culture Want to be Free?
How blockchains are transforming the economy of cultural goods

http://www.academia.edu/33838249/Does_digital_culture_want_to_be_free_How_blockchains_are_transforming_the_economy_of_cultural_goods

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