Abstract (Short paper)

Keywords: Artistic Research, Bitcoin, Performance, Media Arts, Artistic Bokeh, Bitcoincloud, Community Practice, Artistic Capital.

Critical new media art is based on research-based art practice. It is both research- and process-oriented, so that the final result is not “completed” works (products) but rather process artifacts. This paper describes the artistic research and development of the art-group “Artistic Bokeh”, which is developing new documentation formats, and conducting experiments about the value of artistic practice and labor.

• Andrew Newman is an artist and researcher based between Sydney and Vienna. His performative art practice poetically utilises methodologies from the communication
  sciences to examine value construction in contemporary culture. Newman is editor of the journal for research cultures (JRC) and is currently investigating immaterial economics as a PhD candidate at the National Institute for Experimental Arts in Sydney. He has been a director of Runway Journal for Australian Experimental Art since the first online issue Prototype launched in 2013. Newman is head of the ‘Austria Australia Arts Alliance’ which creates an exchange of experimental art positions between Austrian and Australian researchers and artists.

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