Press
« We reinterpreted Marcel Duchamp’s gesture of the ready-made in a radical way. » 
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« Réservés jusque-là aux spécialistes, ces cours audio sont ainsi accessibles au plus grand nombre… mais de façon un peu pirate ! » 
Libération freefoucault
« l'ambition du collectif est double: démontrer qu'une IA critique est possible, et, à terme, construire une IA militante alimentée par des textes théoriques choisis, des manuels syndicaux, des savoirs juridiques pratiques, des récits d'échecs de luttes. » 
Au Poste foukenstein
« La question, devant un dispositif — une serrure, un portail, une IA — nʼest jamais dʼabord : que fautil en penser ? Cʼest : où peut-on lʼattraper ? » « Et s’il était un jour possible d’assister aux cours de philosophie politique de Michel Foucault ? » 
freefoucault
« Our aim is to counteract the over-interpretation of 'artistic intentions' and advocate for a different approach to artwork, one where the artwork serves merely as a specific and situated experience of a protocol » 
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« Every piece of paper money inserted into the machine to burn triggers a music selection to play through speakers while a token is printed, allowing visitors to add new music to the playlist. » 
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« The blockchain might just be used by the same people to do the same old things. I think that would be a shame. » 
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« Definitively, the Distributed Gallery doesn’t consider itself as a crypto-art gallery or a specialist in blockchain-based artwork, insofar as our practices do not consist in following a fashion gravitating around the blockchain » 
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« Rethinking decentralization, consensus, secrecy, privacy, religion, and societal and/or organizational structures has become popular in circles that discuss and explore the possibilities of blockchain-related systems. » 
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« Curated by: Simon Denny in dialogue with Distributed Gallery » 
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« The Chaos Machine is actually one of my favorite works. » « You know if you can call something a scam over a signature change or because you made a mistake over the signature of artwork it just says what we were trying to experiment with, that the art is just a matter of name a matter of signature. » 
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« It’s a custom protocol designed, engineered, and built by the Distributed Gallery Collective, known for one of my favourite projects, the Chaos Machine » 
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« Inside the bubble there was another artwork by a collective called Distributed Gallery, which was literally a money burning machine. » 
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« for a moment the art world thought, not implausibly, that Richard Prince had extended his forays into appropriation to cryptocurrency. » « Inside, a jukebox titled Chaos Machine (created by Distributed Gallery in 2018) burns banknotes » 
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« While festive music starts to play, the note that has dropped into the machine burns on a very hot resistor, an operation that is followed by the printing of a credit receipt in chaos coin, a cryptocurrency invented for the occasion. » 
Zérodeux chaos machine
« We wondered if we could take something like a coin or its token equivalent on the blockchain and make it ‘art’ just by saying, “well it’s a piece of art and we’re trying to sell it in the art world » 
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« Foukenstein prend Michel Foucault au mot. C’est un monstre, la profanation de Michel qui emprunte le timbre de sa voix pour le faire survivre hors de lui » « Free Foucault entend libérer les enseignements du philosophe, pour tous. » 
freefoucault
« la Distributed Gallery a lancé sur le marché son « premier projet » intitulé the Ready-Made Token, de Richard Prince. » 
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« Is it a crypto-jukebox? Or a sophisticated toaster? » 
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Chaos Machine
« Distributed Gallery's money-burning, crypto-issuing jukebox, the Chaos Machine… » « The piece physically illustrates the current phenomena of cryptocurrencies challenging, or burning, existing monetary systems… » Top 5 Blockchain Art Projects
« En inoculant ainsi le geste Duchampien dans l'univers cryptographique… » « Brûler des billets contre des tokens et un peu de musique — voilà l'opportunité unique que propose l'œuvre d'art "Chaos Machine"… » « …voici la Chaos Machine, un juke-box crypto qui permet de choisir la musique en détruisant des billets de banque. » « Présentée lors de la FIAC de Paris… la Chaos Machine a intrigué. »