An electronic allegory of Casino Capitalism
No one is free. The winners must compete, the losers must be exploited
An electronic allegory of Casino Capitalism
The Value Quest Bourse is an invitation to question what is value? The Perpetual Bond serves as a security of values distinguished by a public. It has no maturity date, thus brings an interest forever. Its value flows and re-emerges in time as an ongoing social concern. The bond is based on a promise made by value-holder that he/she takes responsibility for the survival of the identified value. You can add new values in the Value Quest Bourse database, or empower the existing ones. In this process a value of one sort (subjective value) is exchanged for one of another sort (an art object-the bond). This play becomes actuality in the consumption, as Thomas theorem stated “if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
Is value something intrinsic and purely relative, or we should take more practical approach that the value of a thing is just as much as it will bring. We asked five year old girl what is value and she replied “Mother, Father, Sister, but also Gold”. The value entered at the perpetual bond embodies subjective view upon expectations that are held about the future development of the society. The artistic methodology is based on data sensibility, a cultural phenomena of the Information Age, meaning that information is an expressive-building substance while the artwork is a framework for users’ inputs. Its main features are personalization, involvement and interconnection. What are your values? what social, ethical, ideological, or aesthetic values should be accumulated for the future? Do we really stand for values that we propagate or those are just consumable buzzwords? What happens when one value system disappear and doesn’t leave behind critical mechanism to assess new values or pseudo-values distributed through mass media?