Reading Room
A continually evolving treasure trove capturing a few of the ideas which have directly inspired this programme
The alternative art market report
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Brush up on the latest stats
<Report>
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How can we appreciate, or even make art, in the present age?
<Book>
A guide to the machinations of the finance sector
<Book>
The era of data extraction
<Book>
Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
Art elsewhere; is artworld art becoming increasingly irrelevant?
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Influencing The Void Caroline Busta for Kaleidoscope magazine
How big tech will emerge stronger from the Covid pandemic
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Big Tech Could Emerge From Coronavirus Crisis Stronger Than Ever Daisuke Wakabayashi, Jack Nicas, Steve Lohr and Mike Isaac for The New York Times
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Net art, just not on the web
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Michael Connor’s Decade in (the end of) the Internet Michael Connor for Rhizome
How online exhibitions can be more than a second rate substitute for the ‘real’ thing
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Curating Online Exhibitions Michael Connor for Rhizome
Internet art is no longer determined by its existence on the web
<Book>
Can approaching art as information reveal new ways of collecting?
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Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction Casey Reas for Artnome
Art NFTs boom? What’s that about?
<Article>
The Quick: Nonfungible Tokens Cointelegraph magazine
Net art can be sold too
<Interview>
When digital avatar Lil Miquela signed to the one of the world’s premier talent agencies
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Trevor McFedries (Brud / Lil Miquela) Interdependence, episode 3
Can crypto catalyse more equitable models of ownership?
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Blockchain should be about more than ‘banking the unbanked’
<Article>
Ethereum is a Casino Lane Rettig for Etherean.org
Are peer-to-peer networks prepared for an increasingly hostile online environment?
<Article>
Optimism and Emergency in the P2P Network Cade Diehm
All too often pervasive digital technologies reinforce systemic racism
<Book>
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Pandemic adaption for convention culture
How microtransactions in games are powering industry growth
How the market for born digital art will grow
Taking inspiration from indie games distribution and sales models
<Website>
Funding models which build out the creative ecosystem
<Website>
More than an OVR
Meet, collaborate in virtually in person
<Website>
Furies: communities of economic solidarity
Open Source resources and collaboration for net- and computational culture
<Website>
Open source art market
<Website>
Reconfiguring infrastructure to take back agency
What if Patreon was a cooperative?
<Website>
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A critical appraisal of the plantation economic model
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The Plantation Economy Model and the Caribbean Dennis Pantin
A scholarly subaltern critique on the historiography of the British Empire
<Book>
Capitalism and Slavery by Dr Eric Williams
Takashi Murakami; transforming the rules of the market
<MA Thesis>
A different model for a VR sculptural installation – towards a new museology
<Case Study>
FACT/ Federation of International Museums (FIHRM) by Lucia Arias & Neil Winterburn, on behalf of FACT
Lucid visibility; a catalogue of Black talent and sentiment
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A Directory For The Black British Zeitgeist, Samuel Ross for Dazed magazine
Inclusion isn’t enough
<Article>
This work isn’t for us
On the relationship between gender, technology and identity
<Book>
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, by Legacy Russell
Go Off Sis podcast for Black History Month
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How successful black artists are building out future generations
Artist as… is it time for the artworld to embrace merch, brand collaborations..?
Spur virtual residency
<Website>
Lonnie Bunch’s inspiring career centring African American stories at the heart of the American story
The Gudskul for collective working
<Website>
Are traditional endorsement mechanisms being eroded, and is it a good thing?
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Reimagining how, to what and to whom we ascribe value
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When the Money Runs Out, What Might a ‘Poor Art’ Look Like? Ben Eastham for Art Review
Why and how we need to improve the future of community arts organisations
<Report>
The power of art as felt knowledge
<Article>
Making Art vs Market Research Ben Eastham for Art Review
Collecting as practice
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The Evolving Collector: Collecting as a Beginning Art Basel conversation moderated by Rose LeJeune
The end of the Blockbuster era?
<Article>
Local reckoning
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In a Post-COVID World, What Museums Do Outside Their Walls Will Become as Important as What They Put on Them Madeleine Grynsztejn for Artnet
Zine and support network for aspiring Muslim artists
<Website>
‘The Squeeze’ on artists and the financialisation of the art market
<Report>
New forms of support for performance practice
<Website>
On NADA’s new cooperatively run art ‘FAIR’
<Website>
In the absence of Art Basel Miami the city turns to local artists and business
Beyond the marque: Art fairs such as Artissima are expanding their boundaries
<Website>
How networks and participatory practice in the artworld often fail to move beyond neoliberalism values
<Book>
Your Everyday Art World by Lane Relyea
German government provides vital boost to the art market by increasing its acquisitions budget
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Sharing Economies; the basics
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Sharing Economy Investopedia
Manifesting a sharing economy; a range of viewpoints
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What Would an Actual Sharing Economy Look Like? Arts Everywhere
Supporting rather than owning art
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Can the art market thrive in a sharing economy? Melanie Gerlis for The Art Newspaper
Carving out a space in the sharing economy
The ways in which artists can be supported are expanding
Collaborative platform for ‘living art’
<Website>
How cryptopunks paved the way for unique digital art editions
‘This is a defining moment of change in how art is accessed’
<Website>
Supporting and celebrating Hong Kong’s art scene amidst Covid-19
<Website>
Kinder forms of capitalism
<Website>
Who is buying online?
<Report>
Navigating the challenges of ‘disruptive’ innovation
<Book>
What does Instagram mean for the art market?
<Report>
How about a chronological, ad-free and non-algorithmic feed?
Public Submissions
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Lucy, you’ve missed DACS groundbreaking report ‘The Art Market 2.0: Blockchain and Financialisation in Visual Arts’ https://www.dacs.org.uk/DACSO/media/DACSDocs/Press%20releases/The-Art-Market-2-0-Blockchain-and-Financialisation-in-Visual-Arts-2018.pdf
Lucy, you’ve missed DACS groundbreaking report ‘The Art Market 2.0: Blockchain and Financialisation in Visual Arts’ https://www.dacs.org.uk/DACSO/media/DACSDocs/Press%20releases/The-Art-Market-2-0-Blockchain-and-Financialisation-in-Visual-Arts-2018.pdf