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05/09/200815/10/2010

The ROBIN™ Currency – Online Store

Today Friday 5/9/08 at 12.00 GMT The ROBIN™ Currency – Online Store has officially opened and you can now conveniently exchange other currencies such as Euros, Dollars, Swiss Francs, British Pound, Yen, Yuan, Dinar, Rupees or Rubles for The ROBIN™ Currency online using your credit card. (Buy a ROBIN™ Now)

At the moment there is no packaging and postage fee – Free World-Wide Shipping!

What’s next? Possibly another set of ROBIN™ with higher prime numbers. As of now there are no ROBIN™ under 90 CHF / 55 EURO / 44 GBP / 86 USD available, after all notes over 443 ROBIN™ have sold out. (See Exchange Rate Table)

But as the coin and notes of any denomination each correspond to one prime number, they all are unique and have so far only increased in value. (See Market Analysis)

The position of the artist Robin Bhattacharya on the international art market guarantees the value of the ROBIN™ currency.

02/06/200819/10/2010

The ROBIN™ Currency at Swiss Art Awards – Basel

Picture: Performance- Sales talks

Robin Bhattacharya, invited as a nominee for the Kiefer Hablitzel Award, presents The ROBIN™ Currency at Swiss Art Awards during Art Basel from 2-8 of June 2008.

The ROBIN™ Currency

is a fully functioning currency system based on prime numbers.

The coin and notes of any denomination each correspond to one prime number and are therefore unique.

At the exchange desk other currencies such as Swiss Francs, Euros or British Pound can be exchanged for ROBIN™. The currency can be freely traded and the fluctuating exchange rates reflect the market value.

The position of the artist Robin Bhattacharya on the international art market guarantees the value of the ROBIN™ currency.

In times of economic uncertainty, the investment in art is – while risky – one of the most recession-proof. Otherwise often limited by other factors such as prize, size and weight, the ROBIN™ currency makes investing in art as easy as getting your holiday money and as portable as any other currency.

And while other, state-supported currencies are in turmoil, the art-currency ROBIN™ might well be one of the most stable, as each note is unique and therefore, in time, can only increase its value.

www.therobincurrency.com

27/03/200819/10/2010

Disclosures – London

29-30/03/2008 participating with Critical Practice in Disclosures, Gasworks, London

We participated in an event called Disclosures on the 29th – 30th March 2008.

Disclosures seeks to scrutinise the notion of openness across fields of cultural production at large. A first reading of openness refers to situations in which the viewer, reader, listener or internet user becomes emancipated through egalitarian participation, diffuse collaborative authorship and/or the breaking down of hierarchical and social boundaries
It was organised by Anna Colin and Mia Jankowicz of Gasworks. See the programme here.
Critical Practice contributed directly to Phase 1 and Phase 3 of the programme.

Phase 1
We participated in a panel discussion
The View From Here: after Open Congress with Critical Practice, node.London and WMAOYW
1130-1300 Saturday 29th March 2008.
Toynbee Hall, Lecture Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6LS.
here is our Brechtian multi-voiced Introduction.

Phase 3
In Phase 3, we convened a ResourceCamp to tackle the ‘elephant in the room’ of open organizations and those in receipt of public money – the management and distribution of money and resources.

Critical Practice working group Wiki-page: http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php?title=Disclosures

Gasworks website with full Disclosures programme: http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344