MAK Buys Event Listeners Digital Artwork with Bitcoins

MAK Buys Event Listeners Digital Artwork with Bitcoins

Bitcoin is surely taking over the world and it is easy to know it once a museum decides to buy an artwork by paying with bitcoin. In what happens to be the first case, the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) has bought a work of art titled 'Event Listeners (2015)' from a Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel by paying with bitcoins. 'Event Listeners is a limited edition screensaver that will be displayed at the upcoming "24/7 - The Human Condition" at the MAK Design Lab from June 11 to October 4, 2015 as part of the Vienna Biennale 2015: Ideas for Change. Vienna Biennale 2015....


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