The first gift action occurred November 7th. It was grand. Thanks to those who made it out.
The next public gift action will occur at Nic*Rad’s solo show in April at Rare Gallery…
The show will be installed April 3rd, and can be viewed in total up until April 29th when the work will be given away.
For information about reserving a piece: find Nic Rad. Track him down. Really. He’s nice.
PeopleMatter.info is the online community and documentation of a Gift as Art initiative.
The title is taken from Nic*Rad’s media project “PeopleMatter” comprised of 99 paintings of traditional and new Media personalities to be exhibited, and then given away at the opening in April, to those in attendance at Rare Gallery.
This gift experiment is conducted in response to the impact of technological advances that allow for increased sharing of information and content. The project will survey distorting effects of this transition on emerging and developing ideas.
Subjects were chosen based on personal Googling, Twittering, Hyperlinking, Facebooking, RSS culling and otherwise staggering around the internet and media cyberscape.
Recipients of the work will be encouraged to participate in the on going gift actions of the PeopleMatter community as well as setting the second hand value of art works as conversation vessel, novelty, or digital and physical barter.
This project is composed of four parts:
