We are in another book! LAS' publication, 'Interspecies Future,' includes our text on 'A Tree; A Corporation; A Person'—our conceptual artwork in which we investigate whether a tree could be granted full autonomy by legally owning the land it is planted on.
Fun Fact for Today: Plant blindness is a human inability to see or notice plants in one's everyday life.
How can we conserve and archive blockchain art? Can blockchain serve as an art archive? These questions came up during a discussion with Prof. Dr. Carolin Bohlmann at LAS Light Art Space's Pollinator Pathmaker: Summer Programme event and are still open for consideration.
A tree; a corporation; a person. (DAO #01, Black gum tree, Pittsburgh PA) (2022) at the 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh | explores the concept of a self-owning tree using blockchain technology.
morphology panel 01-03 and terra0 workwear jacket in Survival of the Fittest at Kunstpalais Erlangen (2020).
Workwear jacket represent the culmination of the terra0 project from an undetermined future, wherein autonomous natural zones offer human employment oppurtunities for their continued upkeep.
| Photo © Stephan Baumann, <bild-raum.com> |
Flowertokens was a prototype: you could buy, trade, and speculate on tokenized Dahlia × Hortensis seedlings via an online marketplace. The state of the individual tokens were automatically updated according to the different phases of their corresponding plant’s growth.
/ Photo © Stephan Baumann, <bild-raum.com> /
Instead of positioning the system as a passive object in need of care, Premna Daemon exposes the potential for non-human systems to gain the status of autonomous peers within their environment. Via shifting the interactions between one such system and the surrounding human actors into the financial realm, Premna shows how autonomous systems can engage in the form of relationships previously only occurring between humans. Indeed, non-human autonomy is not only possible - it can be crowdfunded.
Flowertokens marked the beginning of a series of projects oriented around themes of the tokenization and verification of natural commodities, and a first attempt at creating a combined crypto-collectible physical asset.
