It would be great if we could create an archive of artists’ activity histories and evaluations.

Creating an archive is a process of historicizing art.

This is another White Cube story, but there was one maniacal staff member who worked silently on it. He kept everything from Damien Hirst’s (see p. 125) first exhibition sign to doodles he drew while eating, all in clear plastic with white gloves on. Anyway, everything related to that gallery and artist was stored in a small room. I was impressed by that and thought, “You are very smart. That’s because we are consciously practicing prehistoricism of making our own history. From now on, just like the press, galleries will need to build archives to historicize art. History is created when artworks become established in the market, but archived history can also create a market in reverse.

Compared to those who create physical works, it is much easier for those who work digitally to store digital data

Until someone comes along who can do it for you, you will need to create your own archive.

  • Interesting story in the early stages when something occurs, but tends to dissipate as early as the beginning
  • Connecting the Dots
    • You never know in advance what will lead to what.

I have been “consciously practicing historicism” since I read this book in 2009

  • I was able to quickly pull up the history of “this is 2009” with Scrapbox, but looking back on it now, I think I missed the “market makes history” part at the time.
  • My Virtual Star was a one-of-a-kind product that cost a lot and was not marketed.
    • It wasn’t the type of thing you could make variations on.
  • Among my works, Technology Supporting Coding and The Intellectual Production of Engineers are the two that have been widely distributed in the market. However, these are the type of works that are “identical in countless numbers and are not scarce” in the technical book publishing format.
  • In that sense, the “fact that we made NFT and it sold well” that came out of trying out various things with C3: Computer Created Cats now, I guess you could say that we are doing “the market makes history.

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