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New Media Gallery 777 Columbia Street (3rd flr, Anvil Centre), New Westminster, British Columbia V3M 1B6
LarbitsSisters, “Bitsoil POPup Tax and Hack Campaign,” 2018
interactive multi-media installation, detail (courtesy New Media Gallery, New Westminster, B.C.)
Collectively, the artists in this exhibition ponder the ambiguous, fluctuating and relative nature of currency and its relationship with value. We are given opportunities to reflect on the meaning of currency and consider what conditions will affect value: external influences such as markets & trading, or socio-political influences such as historic or group consensus, issues associated with human labour or new collective forms of currency, or the systematic ways in which luxury goods such as precious stones, perfume, real estate or historic art can accumulate and reflect value systems.
Using artificial intelligence, internet streaming, diagnostic gas chromatography, block chain, bitsoil and bot systems these artists have produced intelligent, evocative works of great complexity and depth.