MoCC Guide

Valuing the things we buy today as the heritage of tomorrow

Add Something to MoCC

In this museum we are all the curators. Upload and value your own commodities to MoCC. The first section takes no more than 10 minutes to complete - and you can go as deep into the valuing process as you wish. Submit your commodity and return to re-value it at any time.

Browse the museum

Browse and re-value each of the commodities in our current collection using the sliders provided. The more you re-value something, the higher up the rankings it goes… show everyone what you value most!

Take part in an activity

Learn more about connections between data, places, trade and values at one of our walkshops, drop-ins or social events. Sign up for an accompanied shopping trip, take an online quiz, or flick through our lego trade-exchange GIFs.

Help with MoCC research

Have you taken part in a MoCC activity? Please tell us what you think about it by taking a quick survey, and contribute to our research on the effects of projects like this people and places. Your comments will become part of a wider study that we'll share results from here, on this site at a later date.

Learning about the different ways and problems of translating data and making it meaningful was very insightful

Autonomous Tech Fetish workshop participant

This is very interesting, we work with the medical sides of these technologies, seeing it it an art context is really fantastic!

Cuppa Data participant

It's the human impact of production that I will carry with me

MoCC visitor

It's been challenging really but intelligently and thoughtfully, engagingly presented – playful in a creative way whilst surfacing the vastness of the combined issues.

MoCC visitor

I consider myself to be observant, I have never really considered many of the things discussed today

Data Walkshop participant

(It's given me)... a more informed awareness of our involvement and interconnectedness with the world we live in

MoCC shop-gallery visitor, Exeter

... very stimulating, disturbing, informative, hugely thought provoking

MoCC shop-gallery visitor

Delightfully glitchy. Easy to get involved with. Innovative and informative.

MoCC shop-gallery visitor

I really like the idea about what we buy today becoming the heritage of tomorrow. It's about how we decide the things we put in the museum, more participatory but not top-down

Free Market Participant

I felt part of a conspiracy!

Free Market Participant

... a morning spent exploring and discussing the complexities of human transactions, the public and social contracts we enter into on our journeys to work or the shops or the pub, the different ways in which we hand-over our data and our identities every moment of every day — and the way in which the digital is transforming our sense of what constitutes value in art.

Graham Hitchin, Walkshop participant

I thought about the difficulty of doing anything without some knock-on consequences. The politics of disavowel.

Free Market Participant

It helped me dissect my relationship to the product a little more, letting me reflect on its hold on me.

Free Market Participant

The walkshop directed me less to processes of commerce within the area, more to the infrastructures that enable them – for instance, rail communications, market spaces, online/offline, devices. It stimulated an interest in the processes and trade and exchange that underlie this infrastructure in turn – where does it come from, how and where is it manufactured, what networks and processes does it have to go through to arrive here?

Walkshop Participant

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MoCC was founded by Paula Crutchlow at Blind Ditch – www.blindditch.org and Dr Ian Cook at followthethings.com.
It is being developed in partnership with Furtherfield www.furtherfield.org

The concept of a series of participatory prototypes (interactive objects, installations and performances) under the umbrella name of MoCC evolved from a ‘Thinkering Day’ at the University of Exeter where artists, activists, digital experts and academics explored the forms and roles such a digital arts project could take in the public realm.

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