Project by Martín Nadal http://muimota.net/ & César Escudero Andaluz.
Exhibitions:
2017.* ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Mediem Karlsruhe, Open codes (Germany).
2017.* NODE Forum for Digital Arts, DESIGNING HOPE, Frankfurt (Germany).
2017.* ADAF 13th Ahtens Digital Art Festival, #POSTFUTURE, Athens (Greece).
2017.* WRO 17th Media Art Biennale, DRAFT SYSTEMS, Wroclaw (Poland).
2016.* ARS ELECTONICA FESTIVAL, RADICAL ATOMS, Linz (Austria).
DOWNLOAD: Critical mining, Blockchain and bitcoin in contemporary art.
Bitttercoin is an old calculator machine hacked to be used as a miner validating the pending bitcoin transactions in the blockchain. Bittercoin combines Internet of Things (IoT), media archaeology and economics. It 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 afterwards.
For the duration of its exhibition period it seeks to produce money insistently and using an economic system wholly different from the traditional art market. 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 and the working time expended that is conditioned by technological devices. Bittercoin is a fully functional miner that connects to blockchain. Although it is very unlikely, in the event of successfully mining a block, the nonce would be sent back to the server, entering the corresponding bitcoins of the reward to our bitcoin Wallet.
Originally, the calculator consumes 80mA, Watts 220V * 0.08A = 17.6W and 10m of paper per hour.
Pics Marcin Maziej, Natalia Kabanow, Patricia Cadavid.
Press/Publications:
Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
Artreview.com “Will the Blockchain make art disappear?” By J.J. Charlesworth
We Make Money Not Art
References:
Pablo R. Velasco González, Superabundant design: from waste to control in Bitcoin. PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. mining URL: http://www.aprja.net/?p=2927
Denis Jaromil Roio, Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money. Planetary Collegium Ph.D. candidate, M-Node 6 April 2013, version 1.0 https://files.dyne.org/readers/Bitcoin_end_of_taboo_on_money.pdf
silk, VTOL: music using bitcoin URL: http://vtol.cc/filter/works/silk
From the bitcoin to Burningman.
Ubermorgen, Chinese Coin,2015 http://uuuuuuuntitled.com/chinesecoin/ChineseCoin_Text.pdf
Bitcoin, Kahn academy URL: https://es.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day, URL: http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
Broncano, Fernando “el laberinto de la identidad, Después de las máquinas. URL: http://laberintodelaidentidad.blogspot.co.at/2016/02/despues-de-las-maquinas.html
