this text is written for the publication nothing is possible, which is published on the occasion of the exhibition blockchain is… / …for nothing by peers at httpdot.net, commissioned and presented by protocinema, istanbul, new york, at aetopoulos, athens, with support from spot contemporary art projects, istanbul, february 23 – march 23, 2019
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the text includes the following sections:
//preface
//overview: the exhibition; nothing is possible; so, nothing is impossible; so, another world is possible
//background: digital information and the internet; information technologies
//nothing
//cryptographic hash functions for nothing
//nothing as an artwork
//authenticity of the reproducible artwork and certificate of authenticity
//digital signature as the link between nothing and the artist
//nothing as a totally dematerialized yet commodified work of art
//nothing as a challenge for commodification of a totally dematerialized work of art
//three embedded systems on their own quests working for nothing; and the information shower
//the study of the state of nothing: nothing is the same, or, nothing has changed
//the quest for finding something that is nothing, or, the study of what nothing is not
//a blockchain for nothing
//work of art on a quest for becoming an artist by appropriating itself as a work of art as the proof-of-work by the artist relying on its own proof as an original and authentic work of art aka proof-of-work-of-art-ist
//blockchain is
//appendix: information, digital information, hash value; and nothing