June 9th, 2017 at 9 pm over dinner a friend commented her son was into some weird internet money thing called Bitcoin. I know the exact time and place because it was the after party of “Connecting US20”, the exhibition of the interactive art happening I had worked on for 2 years.
I create what I want to learn. I felt it first on a guttural level, believing in the quirky idea. As with the beginning of many of my series I get that neuron zap when my body reacts and relays the message to my brain. I knew this was a sign that Bitcoin was my next series. Down the rabbit hole I went.
Bitcoin was seen as globalized money for all including the unbanked. I was hooked, it has been a great way to expand one’s thinking into the unknown. Bitcoin is still in its infancy.
I read a book prior to my Master’s of Fine Art, “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink. We are living in “The Conceptual Age” He wrote the MFA was the new MBA, the right brain being creative, inventive, playful, putting unrelated ideas into something new. The left side is analytical, logical, linear, the knowledge worker. The shift between the two is a necessity in our advanced society.
Bitcoin has taken me on a 4-year educational roller-coaster ride. I studied the history of money. I have learned to HODL, to save, to explore, and most of all it has given me endless ideas to explore and play in ART.
I’m enjoying the ride, I hope you will experience that in my Bitcoin series.
I create what I want to learn. I felt it first on a guttural level, believing in the quirky idea. As with the beginning of many of my series I get that neuron zap when my body reacts and relays the message to my brain. I knew this was a sign that Bitcoin was my next series. Down the rabbit hole I went.
Bitcoin was seen as globalized money for all including the unbanked. I was hooked, it has been a great way to expand one’s thinking into the unknown. Bitcoin is still in its infancy.
I read a book prior to my Master’s of Fine Art, “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink. We are living in “The Conceptual Age” He wrote the MFA was the new MBA, the right brain being creative, inventive, playful, putting unrelated ideas into something new. The left side is analytical, logical, linear, the knowledge worker. The shift between the two is a necessity in our advanced society.
Bitcoin has taken me on a 4-year educational roller-coaster ride. I studied the history of money. I have learned to HODL, to save, to explore, and most of all it has given me endless ideas to explore and play in ART.
I’m enjoying the ride, I hope you will experience that in my Bitcoin series.
Bitcoin ~ The Global Revolution
Algorithms |
Revolution Collage |
Conversation Starters |
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