New Value Institute

Research & Writing

Research & Writing

NVI's Research & Writing section gathers essays, performance texts, project-based research, and external scholarship produced around Jingyi Wang's practice and the development of New Value Institute.

These texts articulate what the works make thinkable: value as a social process, judgment as public procedure, listening as institutional intelligence, computation as a regime of value, and artistic practice as a way to prototype new institutional forms.

This section distinguishes clearly between NVI-authored essays, project research texts, and external academic responses.

Research & Writing

NVI Essays

Foundational and position essays that define NVI's broader conceptual field: value, artistic intelligence, computation, labour, judgment, legitimacy, and institutional imagination.

01Resisting Computation as the Final Measure: Value, Tokenization, and the Limits of CalculabilityPosition Essay / Foundational Theory Essay · A position essay on tokenization, computation, AI, and the risk of making calculability the final measure of value.
02Value Beyond Work: Human Judgment and Legitimacy in Increasingly Automated SocietiesTheory Essay · A theoretical essay on work, AI, productivity, and the future grammar of human worth.

Research & Writing

Project Research Essays

Research texts that grow directly from specific artworks. These texts keep the works artistically grounded while articulating their conceptual and theoretical significance.

01Money, Algorithms, and the Question of ValueFoundational Essay / Archive Text · An early text tracing the conceptual origin of Post Capitalistic Auction through money, algorithms, art markets, and value systems beyond price.
02Applauding the Price, Not the PicassoFoundational Essay / Archive Text · The preface to PCA's Hong Kong edition, written as the art market reached a turning point.
03JUDGE ME: Value, Judgment, and Legitimacy as Public ProcedureArtistic Research Essay / Case Study · A research essay on how JUDGE ME stages value judgment as a public procedure through testimony, evidence, jury, and verdict.
04Why Does Money Decide Everything?Foundational Essay / Archive Text · The preface to PCA's Bergen premiere edition, tracing the question of why money decides artistic value.
05Auction 3.0Foundational Essay / Archive Text · The preface to PCA's Toronto edition, written after the pandemic, NFTs, and the crypto crash.

Research & Writing

Performance Texts

Texts written for performance, lecture performance, voice, and live presentation, published here as part of NVI's research and writing ecology.

01What Will We Become?Performance Text · The closing chapter of Voice to Voice in Oslo, asking what remains of human value when work no longer needs us.
02Do We Need Artists?Performance Text · The two closing statements of JUDGE ME, in which the artist argues both sides of her own trial.

Research & Writing

Interviews

Interviews and conversations that document the development of NVI's works, methods, and value-system research.

01A Conversation on Value and ArtInterview · An interview with Jingyi Wang on the conceptual ground and bidding currencies of Post Capitalistic Auction.

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External Scholarship / Critical Reception

External academic, critical, and curatorial responses to Jingyi Wang's work, clearly distinguished from NVI-authored essays.

01Asbjørn Grønstad on JUDGE ME and Post Capitalistic AuctionExternal Scholarship / Critical Reception · A synthesis of Grønstad’s reading of JUDGE ME and Post Capitalistic Auction in relation to neoliberalism, justice, artistic labour, and value.
02On the Documentary, the Aura and the Emergency Incident of an Art AuctionExternal Scholarship / Critical Reception · A scholarly catalogue text by Knut Ove Arntzen situating Post Capitalistic Auction within debates on authenticity, aura, simulacrum, hyperreality, and the commodification of art.
03Post Capitalistic Auction as Contemporary ArtExternal Scholarship / Critical Reception · A critical essay situating Post Capitalistic Auction within contemporary art, artistic value, exchange, and the shift from objects to experiences.