Baby born in the back of an uber (ARTISTPROOF_EDTN)
On March 30, 2015, at 5:52am, David Horvitz caught his daughter, Ela, as she was being born in the back of an Uber driving through Midtown Manhattan. He held her up in the morning light as the car drove down Park Ave., blocks away from the Museum of Modern Art, where the mother, Zanna, worked. After arriving at the hospital, Horvitz tweeted a photo and e-mailed his friends.
Baby born in the back of an uber is a Retroactive Readymade. It takes the form of a viral birth event happening channeled through the (un)shared economy and media publicity. It is: Mass Media art, Internet art, App art, Conceptual art, Dada art, Dad art. It is an ephemeral work that only exists through its documentation and communication: in the network of online news, daily tabloids, art blogs, tweeted photographs, and personal emails to friends. The NFTs are each of these documentations.
Baby born in the back of an uber (ARTISTPROOF_EDTN) is the artist proof and contains all images associated with the artwork. In the moment of exhibition the owner of the artwork is free to choose how and which images are exhibited.
Image file descriptions:
- Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" sketch on 4-4-15.
- Email sent from Horvitz to his friends and family from the hospital on Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 8:33 AM.
- Uber receipt emailed to the mother, Zanna Gilbert. At the time Horvitz did not own a smartphone.
- New York Post article published March 30, 2015, 11:11pm by Rebecca Harshbarger and Sophia Sophia Rosenbaum.
- Daily Mail article published 23:43 EST, 31 March 2015 by Joel Christie.
- Tweet posted on March 30, 2015 from David Horvitz.
- Nathan For You S4 E4: Andy vs. Uber episode from 2017.
- OLD NEWS email sent by Jeff Weiss April 1, 2015, 1:10 AM.
- Artnet News article published March 31, 2015 by Maxwell Williams.
- CBS New York article published March 31, 2015 at 3:51 pm.
- Eastern Daily Press article published 4:30AM April 2, 2015 by Sam Russell.
- Two digital photographs emailed by Horvitz to his friends and family from the hospital on Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 8:33 AM.
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