Art Workers, Inequality, and the Labour Market: Values, Norms, and Alienation Across Three Generations of Artists

This paper conceptualizes 'creative transactions' -payment for creative work -as a rich site for the study, design and innovation of new financial technologies, and 'special digital monies'. For most, creative labor remains highly precarious and underfunded and those working in the creative industries frequently rely on diverse forms of funding for their work. As a case study, we draw on a corpus of 87 'Break Kickstarter' crowdfunding campaigns, where project creators were encouraged to break conventions and "rethink what a Kickstarter campaign can be". By studying how these innovative projects broke fundraising conventions and experimented with the transactional attributes of a Kickstarter campaign, we show how they reconfigured the payment for creative work, and developed new relations between creators and their audiences. Drawing on these analyses, we derive new ideas and opportunities for the design of special digital monies to support novel creative transactions beyond crowdfunding campaigns.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; Empirical studies in interaction design.

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Creative Transactions: Special Digital Monies in ‘Break Kickstarter’ Crowdfunding Campaigns

Elsden

Morgan

Speed

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Art Workers, Inequality, and the Labour Market: Values, Norms, and Alienation Across Three Generations of Artists

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Creative Transactions: Special Digital Monies in ‘Break Kickstarter’ Crowdfunding Campaigns

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