Digital Art Festival Taipei

RTS: ReTranSens: 14th Digital Art Festival Taipei 2019, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan 25

October to November 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.

The owner can sell or barter the VoV, or even freely use the shape to produce artifacts,artworks, or goods.During the process, the visitor of the art show has become an artist giving shape to ideas, a curator validating the model according to the abstract concept, a collector preciously keeping the freshly minted token, an art dealer selling or bartering pieces of one’s collection of values for more “valuable” ones. The transaction is the only way to know the objective value of a given value.

VoV is at the same time a real currency, a critical metaphor of the art production narrative, and a dynamic reflection on its founding ontology.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.