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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Simon Denny: The Founder's Paradox
MOCA, Cleveland, USA.
16 February —
10 June 2018
Simon Denny: The Founder’s Paradox presents newly prominent mythologies about the entrepreneurial “founder” and the role of the nation state in a libertarian future that collides with fantasy imagery, expansionist ambition, and political ideology. These narratives are present within innovations like Bitcoin and emergent platform monopolies enabled by the effects of big data and Web 2.0.
Reflecting on the popularity of board games, and resonant with game theory’s influence on the technology sector, these works remap board games with narratives from radical and influential texts like Peter Theil’s Zero to One and the libertarian book The Sovereign Individual. For example, Settlers of Catan, the favorite board game of tech entrepreneur and founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman is re-imagined as a story of expansion where players “settle, trade, and build” from a decaying earth to New Zealand, then out to international waters to found an ocean nation, and finally into outerspace.
Simon Denny: The Founder’s Paradox presents newly prominent mythologies about the entrepreneurial “founder” and the role of the nation state in a libertarian future that collides with fantasy imagery, expansionist ambition, and political ideology. These narratives are present within innovations like Bitcoin and emergent platform monopolies enabled by the effects of big data and Web 2.0.
Reflecting on the popularity of board games, and resonant with game theory’s influence on the technology sector, these works remap board games with narratives from radical and influential texts like Peter Theil’s Zero to One and the libertarian book The Sovereign Individual. For example, Settlers of Catan, the favorite board game of tech entrepreneur and founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman is re-imagined as a story of expansion where players “settle, trade, and build” from a decaying earth to New Zealand, then out to international waters to found an ocean nation, and finally into outerspace.