Ecologies of Artistic Practice

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Thinking Economies Ecologically
Beyond Precarity and Conditions of Disempowerment
Diverse Economies of Art and Technology
Ecologies of Artistic Practice
Processes of Making, Circulating and Organizing
Chapter 1: The Means to Make
Lorna Mills: The Separation of “Art” and “Work”
onformative: Carving Out a Practice Between Art and Design
LoVid: Shaping the Organization of Time and Labor
Facilitating Knowledge Flows
Chapter 2: Circulating in Post-Media Art Markets
Empty Gallery: The Variable Materialities of Conceptual Art
Licensing: Towards A Plural Conception of the Art Object
TRANSFER: Experiments with Distribution Formats for Immersive Media
From Ownership to Circulation
Chapter 3: Between Scarcity and Free Circulation in Digital Economies
Lorna Mills: GIFs as Poor Images and High Art
Sedition: Creating Artificial Scarcity
NFTs and The Financialization of Art
Beyond Scarcity, Towards Abundance
Chapter 4: Mechanisms of Corporate Patronage
Licensing for Media Facades
Brand Commissions
Corporate Artist Residencies
The Artist and the Corporation
Chapter 5: Collaborative Production
Xu Zhen: The Art of Incorporating
teamLab: Large Scale Artistic Collaborations
MetaObjects: Art Fabricators as Mediators
The Company as Collective
Conclusion: Artistic Practices in Process
Processes over Products
Artworks in Permutation
Collaborative Cultures
Shifting Roles, Fluid Identities
Bibliography
Index