The financial markets upheld by extractive neolibral models create financial ecosystems where 'value' is abstacted, where pure speculation, movement for movement's sake, with no apparant purpose other than to defy the law of value is the norm. Since cryptoeconomics is still an emerging force in global finance, there is possibility of subverting the market by using the tools of an extractive system on itself. Fieldness is an experiment in this space between art, ecology, blockchain, cryptoeconomies, decentralizd finanace markets and people.

At the surface, Fieldness is a platform. Underneath the surface, it is an archive of species that might never be seen again, an attempt to convert experiences with non-human beings into crypto-assets of inevitably increasing rarity. As we tunnel through the 6th mass extinction and widespread climate change, it a lifetime personal archive for each user of 'seeds*' visited and a map of observations. It is about creating a model of 'what is valueable' from an organizing logic differnt from our current system.
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We are at the first stage of the project where we have a platform to collect observations of non human life / wilderness in an open, public and anonymous database. This helps us evolve the notion of the seed.

Our next step would be to develop a decentralized application or dapp hosted on the Ethereum virtual machine. This dapp would tokenize ecological observations or seeds. Here we explore the relationships between value, attention and speculation.

As we move to the decentralized application, we will find a way to use the database being created from the fieldness app which is now live.
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'I use the term to refer to the space that lies beyond the topological and conceptual limits of the node. This space is not empty but inhabited by multitudes that do not conform to the organizing logic of the network.' - Off the Network

The Fieldness Dapp

The Fieldness dapp is a platform for exploring this extra nodal space, the space in between destinations. It can be thought of as a game on top of a crowd sourced ecological database and uses tokens as 'seeds' which are time stamped and geo stamped and hold a quantum of information.

And the Landscape

web 3.0 and dapp landscape |

what is fieldness?

By downloading the dapp, anyone can become part of the Fieldness Network. An 'seed' in this context is any physical space with the proliferation of non-human activity or just simply presence of a predominantly non-human being. This means that a tree can be an incident. And one can earn money by sitting under a tree for a certain time. Mediated through the smartphone to access virtual and physical infrastructures of the city, this project attempts to create a parallel economy that is not based on consumption but on spending time in nature and observing. In this attention economy, we can barter a quantum of attention for a value and reinvent the meaning of ‘value’ in the process.

Why doing this?

The artistic motivation is to create a moist envoirmint for a growing, living network that is also an ecological database and a repositary for a long time to come. It is an attempt to not forget what we are losing everyday with the ongoing mass exteinction events in all of our vicinities. It is an experiment with the meaning of 'value' both in economic and philosophical space. It attempts to look at how value emerges or is enforced. In the world as we know it right now, what is valueable is constantly shifting. The economic models of what is valueable and exchangeable are in flux. Attention and value seem to have a close relation in our mediated lives right now. With looming climate change, the pandemic, it seems imperetive to examine what has value. And i would like to ask people to join in the experiment to create a community and network supporting knowledge systems that have vanished from our mental models and vocabulary, public discourse and education. How to take back the earth?

Game logic in a minute

The Fieldness dapp* allows you to create 'seeds'. These seeds contain in them location markers that are created by human on walks. Being a part of this network allows the users to earn cryptocurrency.
The idea is that humans all over the world, taking walks, making observations add these unique observations to an open database that is not server or service dependent and can be trusted to run forever. *(forever is as long as the ethereum blockchain runs) You can create a new seed after you have some game-coins. You can earn game-coins by gathering them around other seeds lying around in your vicinity. These seeds are created by other users of the dapp. These fixed location markers gain or lose value with time as more or less visitors visit them. One could self sustain a seed if the creator visits it. As you understand the dapp's meanign and function, you qualify to make your own seeds.

It is more than a game

Its about taking a walk in the wilderness. Its about shifting your attention away.

where is it coming from?

Fieldness started as the incident network project. The scope of the project to explore ways of seeing the planet- the popular mental models of what is 'valueable' on the planet and in our lives.
It challenges the notions of ownership - the ownersip of stocks, original artowrk, stake in a complany, stake in the health of a network etc. what does it mean to share? what does it mean to own?

Right now seems to be an appropriate time for this as we are going through a large shift in what in what we imagine as currency, what is valueable in the neolibral framework, and what value is reflected (or not reflected) in our lived reality.

Decentralized systems seem to be addressing some of the data exptractivist practices of centralized platforms like amazon, facebook etc. The financial model of web2.0 is attention extraction model.

Anything that is growing with no human aid. Wilderness. Tap into wilderness that is everywhere even though the capitalistic monoculture has really killed the vibe.