2016-ART/INSTALLATION. Bitttercoin is an old calculator machine hacked to be used as a miner validating the pending bitcoin transactions in the blockchain. It combines Internet of Things (IoT), media archaeology and economics, and works as the most basic computer, increasing the time needed to produce bitcoins to almost an eternity.
The operations are displayed on the calculator screen and printed afterward, the paper accumulates around the machine making visible the amount of calculation required, as well as, the natural resources expended in the process, often covering the whole room and the calculator itself. Bittercoin talks about the effort, resources and the working time expended that is conditioned by technological devices. In terms of efficiency, we paid a lot of effort to develop the slower miner ever; Bittercoin is able to calculate one hash per ten minutes, consumes 80mA, Watts 220V * 0.08A = 17.6W and 10m of paper per hour.
2022-WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE. This is a Workshop addressed to those who have concerns with NFTs, blockchain, the metaverse, media Art, digital culture, critical economy and hacktivism. Theoretically, it introduces concepts, examples, art-works […]
2022-ART/NET. The Web3 expose a new paradigm in terms of human labour, economics, data and planetary resources. It is promoted by companies obsessed with finding new forms of commercialization and […]
2021-ART/INSTALLATION. This project focuses on the sustainable values of machine learning (ML), carbon emissions and electricity consumption produced by ML neural network training, and calls for efficient use of GPUs […]
2019-ART/INSTALLATION. Following the legacy of previous projects such as Bittercoin, the worst miner ever and Bitcoin of Things (BoT), proposes transforming music instruments in Bitcoin miners. Combining the interactive, playful […]
2017-ART/INSTALLATION/WORKSHOP. This is a Workshop addressed to those who have concerns with Media Art, Digital culture, Critical Economy, Electronics and Internet of Things (IoT). Theoretically, it introduces concepts, examples, art-works […]
2017-ART/NETBOT. Time-Based-ScreenShot (TBSS) is a NetBot programmed to produce automated Screenshots from the Computer Desktop and post them on Social Networks every 5 minutes. Time-Based-ScreenShots talks about concepts such as […]