artwork

Clickmine

Details

• Year: 2017
• Timestamp: 1532573279177
• Artist: Sarah Friend
• Medium: Software
• Medium: Installation
• Exhibition: Distributed Systems

Description

ClickMine is a clicking game (or incremental game) - With each click, you "mine" a virtual plot of land and an ERC 20 token on the Ethereum network is minted. Clicking games can be thought of as the reductio ad absurdum of a ‘game’ and ClickMine moves similar mechanics onto the blockchain in a hypercapitalist frenzy that makes the generation of useless wealth via clicking more literal than ever before.

Of course, the ClickMineToken is hyperinflationary, so not only will be it be minted in large quantity over the course of gameplay, it will be minted at an increasing rate. In the age of the ICO, we can think of ClickMine as a question: what can we reveal about the implicit social contract of tokens by making tokens that don’t behave “properly”?

Exhibitions

• Distributed Systems, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, 2018 (US)
• NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee, Scotland, November 2017 (UK)
• MoneyLab, London, January 2018 (UK)