Exit Strategy
2017
500w Laser, Software
Dungeon Master Fear and Trembling: On the Blockchain
2020
Academic Speed Metal Powerpoint Album
Colab Work Group – 8.5.19
2019 – Present
Zoom Video Conference
Participants:Gary Coulter, Eric Barry Drasin, Steve Henley, Daryl Neudorf, Ned Robinson, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Jim Whitescarver
Duration: 1.5 hrs
Artists Rights and Transfer Sale Agreement
1971
Legal contract by Seth Siegelaub, Robert Projansky
Distributed Art Object Framework,
2016-2020
Omnigraffle Diagrams and Text
Neoliberal Infinity Bong
2020
Acrylic Bong, embedded electronics, video
Duration: 1 minute
Dungeon Master Social
2020 – Ongoing
Instagram videos, custom sparkAR filter, looping video
Lean Startup Strategy Control
2017
Omnigraffle Drawing, Archival Inkjet Print
Build Measure Learn
2020
Omnigraffle Drawing, Archival Inkjet Print
Engine of Growth
2020
Omnigraffle Drawing, Archival Inkjet Print
White Paper
2017
Infinitely Scrolling Webpage
Value Mutability Matrix
2020
screens, video, custom software
Duration: 1hr
This was my MFA Thesis exhibition which was supposed to have existed from 3.7.20 – 4.4.20 at the Big Orbit Project Space in Buffalo NY. Due to global pandemic, the installation was only up for one day before everything was shut down.
This is the iphone documentation we were able to get from the one day it was open. However the inability to access the space wound up spawning a slew of online activities related to the exhibition.
“In Exit Strategy, I am exhibiting two processes as a dialectic, dealing with our current moment in technology, art, value and possibility. The subject of both processes is distributed technologies like the blockchain, which underpins cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
In the Distributed Art Object Framework, I begin to outline a technological and legal stack which gives rise to emergent forms of digital property. This is presented as a speculative series of protocols, existing as an open source, distributed commons. This project uses the legal frameworks and language of conceptual art to help articulate how and why we must consider digital property as a fundamental right, open and available to all people.
By encoding new behaviors into old containers of value, we redesign how an economy can function. Perhaps in fairer, and more interesting ways.
Since July of 2019, I have been leading development on the DAOF with a cooperative research team. We recently started encoding the Artists Rights and Transfer Sale Agreement, a seminal legal text outlining a schema for artists rights and re-sale royalties. We are creating an automated version of this contract, one that artists can freely use to edition their digital work.
Dungeon Master provides a foil to the utopian ideas presented in the DAOF. Dungeon Master is the world’s most brutal academic speed metal powerpoint band. Here we present our first academic speed metal powerpoint album in its entirety, “Fear and Trembling: on the Blockchain.”
Dungeon Master presents an alternative vision of the blockchain, as I embody a character from the “Dark Enlightenment,” or a group of rogue academics and libertarians who seek to use these technologies to consolidate their power, disrupt democratic institutions and instantiate a type of “Neo-Feudalism,” whereby one’s access to capital more directly dictates one’s ability to influence political process.”