| The Church of Software 2001 (dismissed) |
| I started this project to support the idea of selling the file instead of a representation of it.It was a very radical approach that even generated the Altarboy Server Sculpture series |
| The Church of Software promotes the files' entry in the art market. Up till now the files have been used as a means to do an artwork. But now they need to become a real buying/selling art object. The Church compares the File to the genius and its primary support to the Aladdin Lamp. In the same way you have to wipe the magic lamp to see the genius, you need to load the file to see it. Till today Artists and art Dealers sold just photos of the genius. The Church promotes the commercialisation of the genius The Church isn't a net product but it is born in the net; and it agrees with its characteristics as the possibility to have a total sharing of a document without cancelling the concept of property. Software/files >>>>> The Church (net) >>>> Sharing + Property >>>>> Art Market The approach to the Church must be first contemplative and then interactive. It is not possible to use the Church directly as it is not possible to use directly a theory without mediation with the referential field. |