“But if financial value can be attributed to Piero Manzoni’s canned faeces, at what price will Jeroen van Loon in his entirety sell?”
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Bought by
Verbeke Foundation
for €1100
Selling an
artist’s full
genome: 380 gb
of personal
dna data.
ART
Peter van der Graaf
Head of Department Post-War and
Contemporary Art at Christie’s Amsterdam.
“But if financial value can be attributed to Piero Manzoni’s canned faeces, at what price will Jeroen van Loon in his entirety sell?”
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ETHICS
Eline Bunnik
Bio-ethicist affiliated with Erasmus MC, Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine.
“DNA has at least three kinds of values: informative value, worthiness of protection, and symbolic value.”
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BIG DATA
Sander Klous & Nart Wielaard
Managing director KPMG Big Data Analytics and writer/advisor.
“DNA profiles without any important deviations as well as profiles with very unique deviations are likely to be worth less.”
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CYBERCRIME
Pim Volkers
Executive vice president of Fox-IT and co-founder of Verilabs.
“If DNA is the new gold, I expect to see a gold rush, like we have seen before in the US and South Africa.”
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*** 28/09/2016: Cellout.me has been sold – bids will no longer be registered. ***
By placing a bid you are agreeing to buy Cellout.me for the offered price if you are the highest bidder when the auction closes. Each bid is verified, through personal contact, to ensure that it is authentic.
Buying Cellout.me means buying the whole artwork, which includes the server cabinet, the framed photographs + letters, the scratchpads and the website (including the domain name).
Cellout.me, and with it the artist’s DNA, should be seen as a unique work of art in the way it is sold, documented, maintained, exhibited and stored.