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Since the end of last year, I started to rebuild the next version of Stockartist, an art market simulator and artists stock exchange market. This is the 3rd Version and soon will be launched!!

For the last two years I have been working on the Limbo 100 project, but I reached a point where I wonder, why so many artists produce so many images, drawings, paintings, collages, etc and compete for attention with millions of other images. Where does the value reside? we are bombarded with hundreds if not thousands of images everyday, fighting for our attention, it is the art making itself important and it really is just another image between millions. We are saturated for images, the installation consists in the mixing of all visual printed elements I found everywhere I go..

Stockartist

“THE NEW ART MARKET FOR EVERYBODY”

UPDATE!! Stockartist Version 3 has been launched => https://stockartist.org

Since the end of last year, I started to rebuild the next version of Stockartist, an art market simulator and artists stock exchange market. This is the 3rd Version and soon will be launched!!

Stockartist is an art market simulator and a visual artists stockmarket, created and developed by the new media artist and actvist DHAdmann The first version of Stockartist was launched in 2006, it tooks 18 months of development and the calculation of the shares and behavior was feed by robots taking information from different online sources. The second version of Stockartist was launched in 2009, after a parnership with Artfacts.net the calculation of the shares was made taking the information of database of Artfacts. This new version have been launched in 2024, and the shares and the art market behavior is calculated by algorithms created by DHAdmann.If you want to know more about how the formulas of how the simulator works and the calculation of the artists shares. SOON!!

In 2009 I started a mixed media work composed of A4 pages. This project I called Neverending Painting. This should an artwork that never ends and extends infinitely in all directions, this is composed of 108 pages, shown one time at the Gallery Cruce in Berlin. Years after, in 2020 I continued the work creating and expanding the painting, creating others and inviting other artists to propose artworks based on this concept. Then I thought that would be easy to see the works creating an interface to navigate the works and see them complete virtually. This project I called X-Paintings

X-Paintings

X-Painting is a new model to create, visualize and acquire art. Every X-Painting is created and composed by individual pieces (drawing or paintings with a maximum size of A3) in unlimited quantity and can be extended by the artist in all directions. The X-Paintings can be acquired in any number from 1 to the number of pieces available. Visit the x-paintings website x-painting.art

Since de middle of November I have been working in the expansion of the project Capital KA or Capital Knowledge in Art. I found this project so thrilling, that I cannot stop. Actually I made a list of the next wonderful projects that I have been launching in the 2022. But for now Im concentrating the expansion of the Capital KA, that consist of three parts.

The first part is already developed and running and you can see it under the domain https://capitalka.tk/  in a few words it consist in to convert the content of different art blogs and art magazines in shares of knowledge it is a document with an specific value that represents the value of the appreciartion of the art for the art world.

The second part that Im working righ now consist into create a reference base of knowledge and sistem to evaluate the quality of a text referencing the art world, this is made crawling the information of hundred of texts produced by experts in art and Natural Language Processing Tecnology.  The third part consist en create a sistem to valuate the text based in their quality using the reference of the stock exchange market.

During my vacations in Mexico, I visited the Contemporary Art Museum of Queretaro. Queretaro is a city in the center of Mexico and counts with almost 1.5 million population. It has a province culture movement distributed in a couple of important museums for the city and one of them is the MACQ that is the newest one. After my visit in the museum, I watched their website and realize that they were too open for project proposals. Then I send the proposal of the ODBK/PTI Happening and they accepted to establish the ODBK for two days in the installations of the Museum.

Immediately I contacted some people who could help me with all the programs because it was a very exhaustive two days program. Conferences, debates, interviews in topics of inclusion of the Mexican Indians, women, LGBT group in the art world, the influence of the church in the appreciation of the contemporary art. We invited many relevant personalities of the intellectual community of Queretaro. The event occurred 6th and 7th of October and it was splendid and I have to thank you to the group of seven students of visual arts of the University of Queretaro for their help, enthusiasm and professionalism.

Click here to watch all videos of the Happening in the ODBK Facebook page

This will become one of the base documents for the ODBK Equality and Diversity Certification for Contemporary Art Spaces .This is a collective creation document where all people with an idea and interest of how to create equality and diversity in art museums for example can participate. This document pretends to be a legacy for all art institutions in the art world as a base to implement strategies and procedures in order to create equality and diversity in the selection of artists and artworks.

Click here to participate in the creation of this document

What does this long title mean?

With ‘alignments’ we understand the policies that have to be considered in order for decisions to be made in an art institution. With ‘for curatorial and collection practices and processes’ we mean the practices and procedures for the selection of visual artists shown in their physical or virtual space and/or with their name and/or represented and/or collected by the art institution. Similarly, there are two other aspects of art institutions that have to exhibit ‘equality and diversity, both in terms of its employees and its visitors, this paper however will focus only on the exhibition of the two aforementioned concepts in regards to the artists exhibited by the evaluated institutions. With ‘art institution’ we mean all official or non-official institutions who are engaged in representing, collecting, and selecting visual artists to be shown in their physical or virtual space. This title for example can encompass museums, art galleries, private and public collections, biennials, triennials, and art fairs among others. Finally, by stating ‘to ensure equality and diversity we highlight the goal and main ingredients that have to be taken into account to create and define all content in this document. We know that this goal will not happen overnight. But we want to describe a practical way for any art institution in the world to reach a high level of equality and diversity of the artists selected in a time frame between 3 to 7 years maximum.

Click here to participate in the creation of this document

I received an email from Medium, actually, I don’t remember from whom, but the title of the articles are so seductive and the format of the article is easy and quick to read then after visiting and register in the website I couldn’t stop. The free version offers only three articles for free, but soon there was not enough, so I bought a subscription for one year. I read and read, and I found people who have their income writing articles. For me writing articles in an easy and quick format started with the blog of ODBK, now I decided to become in blogger also, and enjoying transmitting my knowledge in contemporary art to all. Now I created my blog in medium and publish my first article.. hope you enjoy it and send me your comments: https://dhadmann.medium.com/

What does it mean the “Democratization of art”?

The use and misuse of the term “Democratization of art” have created a lot of confusion between the participants of the art world, and the people who want to feel integrated and accepted in it. The lack of a formal definition has resulted in some individuals, institutions, and companies using the term as a slogan to touch the emotional fiber of their public in order to build an image of bringing justice to the art world, being fair, and selling products. The misunderstanding of this term has its origins in the history of the democratization of art. It dates all… Read more…

On December 4th, 2020 ODBK launched the Equality and Diversity Certification for Art Institutions.

This document is part of a study ODBK is carrying out in order to jump-start the process of understanding a fundamental problem in the artistic sphere that persists unchanged. The issue refers to the historic inequality and non-diversity clinging to our artistic institutions. ODBK proposes the collective awakening from this problematic slumber and the formulation of new ideas, mechanisms, communities, processes and initiatives that will inevitably shift our understanding.

Click here to download the Equality and Diversity Report for Hamburger Bahnhof Musuem Berlin

Since 1996 Hamburger has consistently consolidated its reputation as one of the world’s most highly-regarded contemporary art museums. In 2004 the prestigious Friedrich Christian Flick collection encompassing ca 2,000 works by approximately 150 artists was housed in the refurbished former freight depots of the Lehrter Banhof which became the converted Hall, or East wing, known as “Rieckhallen”. As a long-term loan it will remain on display until 2011. In 2,002 the collection was again enlarged by the acquisition of Egidio Marzona’s collection of Conceptual Art and Arte Povera.

The core elements of the museum’s collection stem from the legacy of Berlin collector Dr. Erich Marx who assembled some of the greatest masterpieces of the mid 20th century – works from contemporary giants such as the provocative German ‘enfant terrible’ Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer. Amongst the key pieces are iconic works of art such as Warhol’s ‘Mao’ and Joseph Beuys’ installations including over 450 drawings from Beuys and 60 sketches from Andy Warhol. Conceived as a showcase for the multi-media dimension of contemporary international art the scope of the museums’ exhibits encompasses other contemporary art forms such as film, video, design and photography with installation work from Nam June Paik and experimental work from artists such as Sol Lewitt, Marchel Duchamp and Sigmar Polke and Jason Rhoades.

Click here to download the Equality and Diversity Report for Hamburger Bahnhof Musuem Berlin

I am very surprised at the results that were obtained from said participatory exercise to create the installation of Los Socios y Cia. Mainly because I never imagined that so many people felt with the imagination and wanted to take the time to create a drawing at that time. I started with a few, a few days after the inauguration, the 200 drawings that I had set as my goal had been completed. However, the dynamics were so fluid and many of the drawings were so interesting that I decided to let the participation continue, I didn’t know until when and how many. This reminded me of what Andy Warhol said, “In the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame”, or want to be famous.

When the installation matrix is completed, they will begin to paste the drawings anywhere, and this is where the interesting thing comes from, when you give the participants so much freedom, you start to create a chaos, most of them who cared to leave his brand, many did not read the instructions for participation and were carried away by the impulse to create and paste, since many did not put his name to the drawing and neither the price. So these drawings I had to remove them from the installation and constantly review the new drawings to make a debug. At the end of the two weeks I had to stop this process, I almost had to go daily to the gallery to reorder and clean, in addition to the fact that the exhibition space was almost covered with drawings, with an amount that was twice as planned almost 400 drawings .

El precio inicial por pieza iniciò en 55 Euros, tuvo una variaciòn màxima de 63 Euros poco antes de la inauguraciòn pero despuès tuvo un comportamiento en picada hasta que frene la participaciòn llegando a un precio de casi 34 Euros. Esto me pareciò muy interesante ya que los primeros participantes que hubo eran artistas de todo el mundo. Normalmente el artista aprecia y valora màs su trabajo y pone un precio màs alto y las personas que no se consideràn artistas ponen un precio màs bajo, hasta el lìmite de regalarlo ò querer intercambiarlo por un abrazo, un beso ò algo conectado con una emociòn.

Esta ùltima observaciòn me comprobò que estaba en la direcciòn correcta, el modelo de distribuciòn homogenea de riqueza estaba funcionando las participantes que pusieron un precio màs alto al promedio obtenido recibiràn menos y los que pusieron màs bajo recibiràn màs.