Money as an medium of art

V svoji diplomski nalogi raziskujem denar, njegovo zgodovino, pojav kriptovalut in tehnologije blockchain ter njihovo vlogo v umetnosti. V teoretskem delu predstavim zgodovino denarja od začetke njegove uporabe pa vse do pojava kriptovalut. Predstavim umetnike, ki denar, kriptovalute in tehnologijo blockchain že uporabljajo kot umetniški medij. Praktični del diplomske naloge je objekt, ki v fizičnem prostoru prikazuje fluktuacijo dveh kriptovalut. Prikazani podatki so črpani iz grafov določenega časovnega obdobja in v delu predstavljeni.In my diploma thesis I research money, its history, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and how they appear in art. In the theoretical part, I write about the history of money – since the dawn of time until the point when it evolved into cryptocurrencies. I present artists who use money, cryptocurrencies and blockchain in their artwork. The practical part of my diploma is an object, which represents the fluctuation of two different cryptocurrencies in a certain period of time, presented in three-dimensional space. The data are sourced from graphs, which show the fluctuation of the currencies