Participation Station
How to Use
Introduction
Welcome to Participation Station!
Anonymously contribute to a communal canvas and trade art-assets with other users!
A canvas is comprised of 100 tiles. Contributors sketch on a tile and submit it to the in-progress canvas. When the in-progress canvas has 100 submitted tiles, it is displayed in the Gallery on the home page. Subsequent submissions roll-over to form the next in-progress canvas. Following the submission of a tile, a Private and Public key is issued to the contributor. The keys allow the contributor to access their own portfolio of contributions on The Artful Ledger, which provides a trading platform where contributors can trade shares in the tile assets in their portfolio. The Private key is the password to your art collection in The Artful Ledger. The Public key is the address to which assets are sent when trading. Share your Public key, keep your Private key private.
Home Page
You can view the gallery of previously completed canvases by selecting a canvas in the dropdown box. Click on individual tiles to view them.
When you’re ready to contribute, click “give me a tile”.
The Tile Creator
Use drawing tools available to realise your artistic vision. Choose from a variety of colours.
Submit your tile by clicking the submit button. You will be taken to a page that displays your tile and your Public and Private key. Record these keys if you wish to maintain a portfolio of work, accessible through The Artful Ledger. If you choose not to use the Artful Ledger to trade assets or maintain a portfolio, ignore the “Private Key” and “Public Key” codes.
The page will time-out after 45 minutes so make sure you submit before time runs out!
The Artful Ledger
Once you have a Private and Public key and at least one submitted tile, you should enter the site via The Artful Ledger login page (follow the red “A”). Once logged in with your Private key, subsequent tiles submitted via the Tile Creator will be allocated to your portfolio. From The Artful Ledger page you may view the tiles in your portfolio. Your portfolio initially comprises of tiles you have submitted to Participation Station, but ownership of tiles in portfolios can be transferred. Using the Transfer Asset menu, you can transfer ownership of a tile asset in your portfoliio to another contributor on the system via their Public key. To transfer shares in a tile, either in part or whole, enter the ‘assetref’, number of shares ‘qty’ and pick the Public key of the recipient of the asset transfer from the drop down box. Attribution and ownership of tiles, the original file’s file hash, it’s location in the Gallery, and it’s transactional history is stored in a blockchain, providing immutable proof-of-work and provenance.
Boring Legal Stuff
By submitting an artwork to the communal canvas you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, free licence to use the artwork as we see fit. Attribution is for artistic purposes only. The Tile Creator has been adapted from this code under MIT license, and integrated into a Multichain blockchain operating under GPLv3 license.
Boring Rhetoric Stuff
In 1981 Douglas Crimp stated that Daniel Buren’s “code of art” would, nor could, ever be assimilated into the wider painting lexicon. This feeble exclusion surely cannot dash the hopes of digital artists in their endorsement of the adjective painting.
Taking on the manifestly mechanical aspects of the medium and reimagine painting as, much like any other simulacra, a hyper-(un)real interpretation absolutely does not nullify the stature of dignity of painting.
Becoming indistinguishable in premise to myopic notions of painting as reverent and untouchable; and modernist notions of reconstructed boundaries and the expanded field, the eco-system of non-partisan exchange afforded to us by the phenomenon of the non-fungible tokenisation of art entitles painting to a new “code” which in itself embodies admittance.
