About Birdman

Martin "Birdman" Voorzanger is a Dutch Digital Pioneer and serving as CxO of the Exchanghibition Bank. Where the "x" stands for, changes on a daily basis, ensuring the dots stay connected. Next to that, he is an entrepreneur and founder of Beyond Brands, a social media and mobile marketing services company. His connection to Dadara goes back to the early days of house music, through the flyers for RoXY and CD art work for Outland records. He was one of the builders of the Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia project and performing on Burning Man, Lowlands, and Berlin.

Hirst gives it a second chance

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Birdman

The Art Newspaper reports that Damien Hirst is creating a smaller version of his diamond encrusted skull (For the Love of God). It’s an infant’s skull cast in platinum and pavé set with pink and white diamonds.

Due to the smaller size , he is betting to get it sold this time. Does art follow the market?

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Money as art in 3D (or origami as you will)

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Birdman

Google Wheel is a nice tool to explore the universe as you want to see it. After entering the keywords “money” and “art” it showed me some popular related terms including “money origami”. Cool, I was not aware of this type of street art, provided you spend the money. Here you can find some cool images.

There are even books just about this.

Any nice art works you want to share?

Hello bankers and artists!

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Birdman

The Art-as-Money-blog will explore the connections and frictions between the monetary and intrinsic value of art in conjunction with the interactive Exchanghibition Bank and Pool of Plenty performance-installation by artist Dadara.

We hope the blog will both inform and trigger and provoke thought and discussion about art and money and invite you to take part in the discussion by posting your thoughts and hopefully triggering and provoking us back!