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Update #1: Many, many thanks to all of my backers
Hi, everyone. As you've already heard from Kickstarter, Fund Nothing didn't reach the $100 threshold, so plan B for the certificates kicks in. I'll complete them in secret over the next week. True to the plan, I didn't send out any updates while the project was active, but I'm taking a moment to send out a final post mortem now.
There were some spikes in activity during the first couple weeks of the project, and then it went down the tubes, as I suspected it would. There was one beautiful last-minute pledge overnight, with less than an hour to go. The project also got three comments, two that were negative but frustratingly uninformative, and one that was resoundingly positive (thanks, Eric B!).
Of course, I still consider the project to be a rousing success, since any outcome would have been equally meaningful. This is the perverse beauty of art that's designed to exist in a bubble. That being said, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for your support and pledges. I deeply, sincerely appreciate it, especially since I'd heard through channels that some of you really enjoyed the piece. Ultimately, that was its purpose: to give a small amount of meaningful but transient pleasure to a few people. I can't think of a better reason for creating something and calling it art.
I'm planning to launch another Kickstarter-based work in a similar vein very soon. If any of you want to hear about it when it goes live, e-mail me or send me a message from the Fund Nothing listing. This piece will feature the building of a semi-random text on a specially-created blog, with the daily total of pledges influencing the selection of preexisting sentences from the Internet. The eventual fate of the final text will depend on whether the funding goal is met.
Thanks again, and take care.
Jeff
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on October 22, 2009.
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A signed, numbered, limited-edition certificate of artistic collaboration, per the description in the proposal. Pledges of exactly one dollar are optimal.
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I am a graduate of the MFA program in Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. In Spring 2010, I will teach undergraduate classes at SVA on the essay as a literary and artistic form, and the influence of magic, meditative traditions, and theories of primitivism on modern art. I also have an essay in an upcoming catalog for an exhibition of the works of artist Tobi Kahn at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, opening in October 2009.
