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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 11:19:36 PST
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From: cocot@osc.versant.com (gur fhcreabezny rznvy fbpvrgl)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0028] MOVIE: Money Man (An Artist Who Makes Money. Literally.)
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Keywords: surfpunk, Philip Hass, J S G Boggs, Secret Service
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R U Serious (editor of Mondo2000) said something to the effect that
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money is the ultimate current example of virtual reality -- not being
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backed by gold or anything real, it's just bits and bytes on paper, in
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computers, in stock exchanges. Monetary transcations today are
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basically hard disk writes.
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strick
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Source: New York Times, 15 Jan 93, National Edition, pB10
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Headline: An Artist Who Makes Money. Literally.
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Byline: By Stephen Holden
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| Money Man
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| Directed by Philip Haas
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| Released by Milestone Films
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| Running time 60 minutes.
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|_____________________________
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J S G Boggs, the subject of Philip Haas's intriguing documentary film
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"Money Man," is an artistic provocateur whose chosen form of expression
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is the creation of homemade currency. His hand-drawn bills, while not
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strictly counterfeit, look enough like the real thing to have alarmed
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the autorities in several countries. In Australia and England he has
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been arrested for counterfeiting but later acquitted of the charges.
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And in 1991, the Secret Service seized 15 of his bills in a hotel room
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in Cheyenne, Wyo. The agency, while declining to prosecute, refused to
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return the bills, which the artist prefers to call "notes."
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More than a superb draftsman, Mr Boggs is an ingenious Conceptual
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artist whose finished works, which he calls "transactions," require the
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participants to re-think basic notions about money, art, and value. He
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doesn't consider one of his works complete until he has "spent" one of
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his fake bills and received real currency in exchange. The bills
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themselves often have whimsical touches, like his signing of his own
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name as Secretary of the Treasury, or his initialing the back of a
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one-faced bill with a thumb print.
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"Money Man," which has opened in New York and will spread to other
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cities at the end of the month, follows the artist on a motorcycle trip
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from his home in Pittsburgh to Washington, where he hopes to retrieve
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the notes that were confiscated in Cheyenne. ...
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... The artist has refined a clever spiel to explain the purpose
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of his work. It forces people, he explains, to consider the processes
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that determine the value of an object. It also subverts the art-world
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establishment by eliminating the middle man.
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...
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Pull the wool over your own eyes.
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:w ! spell
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BARRNET
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Boggs
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COCOT
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Hass
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Mondo2000
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