Fountain #3 original
by Bård Ionson
Share original non-commercially unaltered with attribution; Modify with attribution & commercialize. Share alike is encouraged by adopting remix license making the remix art the new original; repeat. 501 choices
short link to each artwork is fountain-art.com?###
Find art in Fountain project or use fate
Right Click, Save as.; Don't sell it
Modify, create, remix, build, collage.
Be excellent, don't use for evil, war or disinformation
Attribute artist & original Url
dance with a slipper on your ear
Sell it anywhere.
Donate something back to original artist(s) or pay it forward somehow.
GANstein -vBnoiitC from Fountain 163
DEATH PUNK 175 (Evolution) CryptoChild from Fountain 489
Fountain Performance 23.1 (Maybe Mario) CryptoChild from Fountain 23
Let me know if you have questions or feedback on how to make this artwork and project better. The descriptions on this page are my idea of how it maybe used. The artists of the world might have other plans. (That is you.)
Nam June Paik was at one time part of the Fluxus movement. Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. (wikipedia) They followed the idea that everything is art and everyone can make art. The art was most often participatory and the audience was included in the artistic fun.
Some artists in the movement also created conceptual art pieces. Nam June Paik produced art that was both performance, conceptual and video art at the same time. To me he is one of the best remixing artists. He took video clips from anywhere and mixed them and then displayed them on sculptures remixed from TVs and other electronic equipment and furniture.
In that spirit Fountain has been created to encourage everyone one to make art out of everything. To make a performance of it by sharing and remixing each others work. And then to sell it so we can continue making art out of everything.
It is about the artist, the collector a continual live performance of remix and regeneration of art and new ideas. An experiment in remix/collage art, artificial intelligence and Crypto Art / NFT art. An experiment in modern conceptual art with participation from artists of all genres and mediums. The whole model can be thought of as one artwork with many facets. Art created using AI from sitting and squatting toilets is infused throughout the AI model.
In short, Fountain is an archive of 501 (and counting) images created by Bård Ionson available for you to remix and resell. It is geared for the dynamic experimental crypto art markets. Composed of curated image from a GAN model created and trained by artist Bård Ionson. It is designed for an artist to make a remix, collage, meme or supporting elements in video art to remake art they can sell on NFT markets.
The original token (NFT) of the art is owned by Bård Ionson and hosted on Cargo. The original may be sold it at a future date. You are not allowed to resell this original in its current form. However please share the visual of it anywhere non-commercially but you attribute Bård Ionson, title and the url to it.
To sell the art you must make it into your own art with modifications or remixing that reinterprets the work in your personal artistic way. (You are the artist.) The new art you create must attribute Bård Ionson and provide at least the url to the original work. You can shortlink to the works by using a url like fountain-art.com?444 Use the number of the art after the question mark. I encourage you to share alike with your new piece but it is not required because you may use this art as a very small part of a larger work. License details at Bård Ionson Remix License 1.0
Share option
1a. Share artwork non commercially without modification
2a. Attribute to Bård Ionson with title and url to original image
3a. Do NOT use for harm (war, disinformation, exploitation, etc.)
Remix option
1b. Remix with significant changes (meaning, context, color, major crop, meme, addition etc.)
2b. Optional, attach the remix license to art description
3b. Attribute to artwork urls (at least original & last) and if it fits Bård Ionson and/or remix artist, titles in description and or metadata.
4b. optional announce release on social media cc @bardionson
5b. Do not use for harm (war, exploitation, disinformation, etc.)
6b. Sell the remixed artwork anywhere. (The remixed artwork is only commercialized by remix artist.)
7b. Recommended to donate to artists(s) in someway
8b. Next artist repeat if item 2b is used
Hopefully the sharing and remix chain will be unbroken. Once an artist remixes the original artwork they can choose to apply the Remix License to it. Then other artist can build on that artwork for something new. Each artist can profit from their labor by reselling their version. I recommend selling on cryptoArt or NFT marketplaces. But you can also sell them as physical prints or goods. If the artist finds the remix valuable they can repay the last artist in the chain with money, crypto, marketing, social media post, purchasing their art or other ways.
The remix or collage artist is allowed to use as many images as they like. So take 5 and turn them into a collage. Just put links to at least the original Bård art and the last art you copied from in your description or metadata so the pedigree can be discovered. The list may get too long to put in a description. If you can edit the metadata the rest of the pedigree can be entered there.
There are a few mp4 videos in the Fountain archive. You can take individual frames and use them or place the video in a larger context or reimagine the video in some way.
Diagram to the right is from dada.art as an illustration of the pedigree linking. You can reply to my drawing if you like just click on it.
2 january 2021
a remix by remixerArtist
they have selected the remix share alike option - description contains: "Bård Ionson Fountain #03 https://app.cargo.build/collectible/0x3ac9EF13007E2f8ad860A77f5fDF14696ACF1E02/3"
If using Cargo.build you can add this metadata below:
"pedigree": [{"artist": "Bård Ionson",
"title": "Fountain 03",
"url":"https://app.cargo.build/collectible/0x3ac9EF13007E2f8ad860A77f5fDF14696ACF1E02/3"},
{"artist": "remixerNFT", "title":"moshed egg"
"url":"nftArtmarket"
}]
3 febuary 2021
a remix by Bård Ionson
they have selected the share alike option - description contains: "Bård Ionson Fountain #03 http://bit.ly/fountain003 & Måx Ø$iRi$, reviiser.eth, roganx.eth,MassimoMagee robnessofficial, prokopevone.eth,DoctaGonz,OsirisOrion,naturevrm,punk_cipher W4iT1NG 4 Th3 WØRLd 2END http://bit.ly/W4iT1NG"
If using Cargo.build you can add this metadata below:
"pedigree": [{"artist": "Bård Ionson","title": "Fountain 03",
"url":"https://app.cargo.build/collectible/0x3ac9EF13007E2f8ad860A77f5fDF14696ACF1E02/3"},
{"artist": "remixerNFT", "title":"moshed egg"
"url":"nftArtmarket"
},{"artist": "Måx Ø$iRi$", "title":"W4iT1NG 4 Th3 WØRLd 2END"
"url":"http://bit.ly/W4iT1NG"}]
With Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning GAN models the entire model could be thought of as the entire artwork. It has billions of images inside of it composed of mathematical formulas. The Fountain model is trained by the artist who has spent time curating 2,700 images of toilets. Bård then generated thousands of images looking for the ones worthy of display. Sometimes they were mixed with other models at the generation phase. Like a Frankenstein monster they were merged with gas masks, clocks and crucifix. The Fountain Collection contains the resulting output. The models stand ready to generate more.
Why toliets? The artist was inspired by the story of the artwork called Fountain. The piece is not really much to see, ugly in fact. It is the idea and the people behind it that are of interest. The unending argument over what is art and who is allowed to make it.
It has been theorized that the real artist behind Fountain, the R. Mutt urinal by Marcel Duchamp was really conceived of by Elsa von Freytag-Loinghoven. She collaborated on another conceptual artwork however called God. It was created the same year as Fountain 1917. In her honor 99% of the toilets in the Fountain Collection are of the type used by men and women. They are also split between sitting and squat toilets. This is all in the name of inclusivity both by gender and the "eastern" and "western" parts of the world.
Because all creatures defecate and only one species invented the toilet and all those pipes.
God By Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven & Morton Livingston Schamberg - TgGFztK3lZWxdg at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29801887
Be excellent to each other. Give as you have been given to.
Share original non-commercially unaltered with attribution; Modify with attribution & commercialize. Share alike is encouraged by applying this license making the remix art the new original; repeat.
Complete license at: bardionson.com/remixLicense1.html
tip artist: bardionson.eth
Share option
1a. Share artwork non commercially without modification
2a. Attribute to Bård Ionson with title and url to original image
3a. Do NOT use for harm (war, disinformation, exploitation, etc.)
Remix option
1b. Remix with significant changes (meaning, context, color, major crop, meme, addition etc.)
2b. Optional, attach the remix license to art description
3b. Attribute to artwork urls (at least original & last) and if it fits Bård Ionson and/or remix artist, titles in description and or metadata.
4b. optional announce release on social media (@bardionson)
5b. Do not use for harm (war, disinformation, exploitation, etc.)
6b. Sell the remixed artwork anywhere. (The remixed artwork is only commercialized by remix artist.)
7b. Recommended to pay artists(s) in someway based on your valuation
8b. Next artist repeat if item 2b is used
Full Version
Be excellent to each other. Give as you have been given to.
Share original non-commercially unaltered with attribution; Modify with attribution & commercialize. Share alike is encouraged by applying this license making the remix art the new original; repeat.
Experimental CryptoArt NFT Art license for remixing the “Fountain” artwork series by Bård Ionson. Feel free to tip artist at bardionson.eth.
Definitions:
Remix - the original image modified into a new work of art via remix, build upon, edit, collage, meme or other techniques. Placing the original artwork into a larger film is included in this definition of a remix.
Remix artist - the artist that is modifying the original Fountain artwork. This can be performed by a remix, alteration, meme or collage.
Attribution - means that Bård Ionson and the url to original artwork and other urls in the remix are listed, as many as fit. If possible list artists names and art titles in the remix chain. If the list is long just list the original and the last artwork copied from. Publicly communicate your remix to @bardionson on Twitter & Instagram or other social media.
Significant changes - means that the remix artist has changed more than just enlargement or reduction in size or changing a few pixels. The changes must add new or alter meaning or context. Cropping portions is allowed.
Tipping / Donation / Pay as you like - Use your best judgement, if your remix sells for very little don't waste transaction fees to pay the artist. Pay them with marketing, a social media post or blog. Wait until you sell many artwork / NFT and pay in a lump sum. Buy some of the artists art work. Pay it forward.
The original Fountain artworks are available without modification to share anywhere with attribution for NON-commercial purposes. Please inform artist if the art is reproduced in a non-commercial academic or scientific study or literature.
Artists who remixes the original artwork is allowed to tokenize and/or sell it for commercial purposes on any platform or channel with attributions.
A remix version can contain as many Fountain artworks as the remix artist wants but the artist and links to each Fountain artwork must be noted.
Remix License Share Alike
Remix artists have the option to include this Remix license with the remixed artwork. The remix version can only be used for commercial purposes by the remix artist. The remix product becomes the new original for terms of this license.
Optimally there would be a chain of linkages showing the pedigree of all artwork remixes from the parent to all the children and grandchildren.
But there are situations where the original Fountain art is such a small piece of the whole new artwork that share alike is not economically possible. Donations based on value of remixed work to the original and remix artists is suggested.
Video art in the Fountain Collection
The art videos in the Fountain collection can be used as individual frames or animation in a larger artwork.
AI/ML/Generative Recreations
If the Fountain artworks are used in a machine learning or artificial intelligence image generation system the model must be tagged with attribution. The output from the model must be attributed and a link provided to the catalog of Fountain artwork. It is not necessary to list each artwork used in the model creation. The output and resulting model can be used for commercial purposes.
Restrictions
Artwork and remixes will not be used for purposes that are harmful to the environment or any sentient lifeforms. It may not be used for war, disinformation or psychological manipulation. Contact the artist for sharing the original for commercial purposes for permission.
Bård Ionson retains commercial rights over the original version of the art. The remix artist over the derivatives will retain commercial rights over their variation according to the license they retain and restrictions above.
Be excellent to each other. Give as you have been given to.