pblog: 24 February 2006

Today we had a small studio meeting about commodities and the studio. Sorry that Kevin wasn't here to join in what is really a dialogue he has generated.
I offered some source material in a friend Conrad Bakker's work and a class he is teaching in the graduate program at U of Illinois ChampaignURbanna called art economies I wrote to request access to their wiki and Conrad replied, "We have not covered exchange in full yet, but there are some links. and if they want to use the discussion features, that would be cool too. There is a good essay on exchange by miwon kwon in the work ethic book. Also found a nice anthro essay on barter but can't remember who wrote it. Its on the arteconomies syllabus." - Conrad
I recommend looking at the external links on their wiki. Check out the artists and projects. If you have more specific questions regarding exchange, barter, commerce, commodity, we can chat or email with Conrad. -paul

I also mentioned JSG Boggs in our meeting on exchange. Boggs draws money, then spends it. It collapses the issues of money, art, representation, and law into one form. His web site seems to be down, but there is a wikipedia entry and here is a site with many links on his work. - paul