Boggs

April 23, 2008

Saper explains in his article “Networked Economies: Six Degrees of Boggs” essentiall that the artist JSG Boggs creates involved social systems. I say involved because each member of the networks he creates are what Saper would refer to as collaborators. These people collaborate in a system that works off of an alternative type of currency that Boggs creates; Boggs money is similar to actual currency, and as such allows people to interact in a novel way. What most interests me is the way that Boggs is able to deflate controversy over his artwork in the way he uses impromptu, casual social interaction as a tool.