Bauhaus 100: Digital Landscapes

International group exhibition by invitation Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy

July to October 2019

Value of Values (VoV) is a blockchain-based art project.It aims to find out the real, economic value of human values through EEG (Electroencephalography, and bio feedback). VoV is an extension to the acclaimed Brain Factory project. In both, exhibition visitors (aka Brain workers) give – straight from their brain waves– a three-dimensional shape to abstract concepts, like FREEDOM, PEACE, MONEY, LOVE, POWER.In VoV, the resulting shapes are brought into the context of an “ethical realism”, an objective representation of individual and collective hierarchy of values. While Brain Factory deals with a wide range of human abstractions, VoV only gives shape to those that could be considered as human values. The neuro-designed shapes, produced by individual visitors, become named and numbered digital 3D models: FREEDOM 0001,FREEDOM 0002… FREEDOM 000X. Each numbered item is an artwork registered on the Blockchain.

VoV III

Value of Values (VoV) explores the nexus of human creation, the value systems of artistic production, and our insatiable desire for reified representations of human thought.The result is a Global Art Project based on Critical Fusion, the speculative and convertible merging of Fiction and Reality.Value of Values is an art project by Maurice Benayoun (aka Mo Ben), Tobias Klein and Nicolas Mendoza Leal, produced with the support of City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media, ACIM Fellowship and Mind Spaces, ast ARTS Light House EU project, and Mind Spaces HK, a CityU RGC grant.