Olivier believes that being uninvited to the Rare Digital Art Festival is validation of their project. The real Richard Prince, The Rare Digital Art Festival, and Artnome all started spreading the word it is a scam. When the real Richard Prince's manager informed the Rare Digital Art Festival that it was not the famous Richard Prince presenting, they became angry. They believed it was partially based on the merit of their project, the Ready-Made Token. They were invited to present at the Rare Digital Art Festival. The famous Richard Prince did not want to participate in their game. That worked like a experimental gesture." Was also find it fun to play over this kind of double identities for a dadaist project. Richard Prince is the name of a twitter account we hold so we told to ourselves that it would be fun to play with the homonymy and see where this would lead us. So we decided to create a signature of our own : Richard Prince. "To fulfill our idea - about ReadyMade, Dada, and so on - we needed a signature. The use of "Richard Prince" as the artists name was intended to play with identity, a concept they thought the famous Richard Prince would appreciate. In Olivier's opinion "this project really raises a lot of important questions about what art is, about its relationships to the art world and the art market." While I encourage you to read the full Interview when it becomes available as it is an interesting story, I am sharing the key points from our interview below. I have confirmed that Olivier Sarrouy is the originator of the Richard Prince Ready-Made Token and I will be publishing my full interview with him shortly. For now, I am stuck trying to convert 1.3101 ETH back into dollars before I get in trouble with my wife. I am big fan of Marcel Duchamp, the father of the Ready-Made, and still believe Olivier's idea is quite brilliant. Honestly, I would consider buying the Ready-Made Token from Olivier even without connection to Richard Prince, but I fear my money would vaporize. Olivier, I am curious to your motives and would love to chat some time, you can reach me via Twitter or at had initially planned on buying the singular Richard Prince Ready-Made Token, and democratizing it by tokenizing it into thousands of smaller tokens that could be purchased for less money via an ICO. If I hadn't almost lost $1.4k bidding on an auction for a non-existant Richard Prince Ready-Made Token, I'd have probably gotten along with him. Honestly, Olivier seems like a pretty cool guy. Digital technologies thus constitute the place from which to think, in my works, the changes of the contemporary world. My research aims to analyze the economic, organizational, social and political recompositions that the hegemony of the web now exerts. According to the Twitter account, Olivier is a "Master of Conferences in Information and Communication Sciences at Rennes 2 University." According to his academic profile: Pretty good chance this is the Olivier Sarrouy we are looking for. It was even announced that Richard Prince would be interviewed at the “ Rare Digital Art Festival” in NYC on January 13th (which I hope to attend). I was in the process of converting $1.3K into Ethereum to make a competitive bid when several sources associated with the “Rare Digital Art Festival” informed me it is a scam on Twitter. I’ll be honest, it sounded like a pretty cool piece of conceptual art to me and I was ready to bid. With this gesture, Richard Prince questions what money is, puts the lights on the beliefs it relies on and its links to the art market.” The purpose of Richard Prince with this project is to experiment with blockchain technologies by altering the status of crypto-currencies: from an exchange medium to an exclusive artwork. “The Ready-Made Token (RMT) is a blockchain-based crypto-currency, only one unit of which will ever be emitted. In mid-December, a website called “ The Distributed Gallery” announced they were auctioning a single “ Ready-Made Token” by Richard Prince that consisted of a single Ethereum token.
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