![]() To let participants know the geopolitical background on the spread of the disease, our team sets a Positive Coin ATM in MOCA. The name of the handling fee is titled as the Antiviral Therapy medicines, such as Biktarvy, Triumeq, Odefsey. Positive Coin has an in-time exchange rate with the New Taiwan Dollar. Our team scripted the interviews with HIV-positive people in FB Chatbot, the Positive Coin participants then can chat with it, for further understanding and developing the AIDS identity, the coin users also symbolize the community members who possess viruses. AIDS now is a chronic disease, people also developed its identity and community. Such act symbolize how HIV-positive people revisit the hospital, in order to prevent the outbreak of further complication.Įach currency has its user community. However, the digital wallet will expire every 14-21 days, participants need to revisit the exchange and pay a handling fee in order to revive its wallet. Different coins increase daily with different interest rates, just as how the virus constantly grows. There are four types of coins randomly distributed to the audiences by the exchange, each coin has particular bionic features symbolizing the four HIV subtypes. When Participants scan the QR code on their digital wallet, the current amount of their Positive Coins is shown. ![]() Participants can collect their own physical-digital wallet at C-Lab, which serve as the exchange. The participants can purchase the coins online with New Taiwan Dollars. Our team gamified the following eight elements in Positive Coin for project participants developing a better understanding of AIDS identity: By combing the notion of currency with the disease, we also reverse the preconceptions on values. ![]() As an artist, I gathered a team to compose the parallel analogies on the circulation of disease with trading. “How to kill the virus?”, “How to defeat the illness?” Susan Sontag depicts that we often use military vocabularies to describe diseases. After consulting doctors, psychiatrists, and AIDS activists, our team designed a cryptocurrency with the bionic features of HIV. “Positive” refers to HIV positive, and how HIV-positive people can bring positive meaning to their stigmatized disease. Positive Coin is a participatory art project exhibited in Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab) and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei.
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