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sten🧢
@sten
fantasy curriculum, gonna test it in some classes in ‘24, v keen for feedback https://mirror.xyz/kirstenbevin.eth/UTqRxL4dNycGv7oowat0SFo53eRpzYL7SCCz4AFn6mw
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Sam
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Love this but I wonder if there is a way to go further, you mention pushing past just “pretty” gen art and uncovering systems, making immaterial, material. What other areas could be taught e.g. interconnecting functionality, websockets, social layers
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sten🧢
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thank u, really good point, emphasising the art situated in its web context with web possibilities.
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Sam
@sammdec.eth
Yeah exactly, modern gen art is often now comprised for a web medium and part of that medium is that its social/inter connectedness at its core I feel like there is a small set of artists who explore this inter connectedness with the other variables to produce compelling pieces but would love to hear more
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Sam
@sammdec.eth
However, I do think that it doesn’t necessarily need to be locked to web only, maybe the mechanisms can be generalised. Lauren Lee McCarthy and Casey Reas have setup the UCLA Social Software initiative which looks interesting at what social software and gen art have in common
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sten🧢
@sten
interesting challenge to unfold social mechanisms from the NFT ‘💀 we r a community 🔪’ tornado. do u think best case studies are artworks where the whole project structure is a relational connection between many owners / parts into a greater whole? Terraforms an obvious example here!
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Sam
@sammdec.eth
Ah yeah, I meant social aspects being part of the generative part rather than purely ownership part but I guess ownership could always be part of that mechanism. Yeah terraforms is a great one but also do like pieces like hash marks by deafbeef that has a certain ownership mechanism
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sten🧢
@sten
oh yes, got u 🙌 non-token social mechanisms exist
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Sam
@sammdec.eth
Yeah definitely doesn’t have to be a token element. I definitely tilt towards tokens because I think there are some cool mechanisms they allow for but I agree once you introduce them hard to separate the “community” aspect from them and number go up. Unless maybe the project pitted token owners against each other
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