Sal Randolph

Sal Randolph (born May 30, 1959) is an American artist and theorist who works with issues of gift-giving, money, alternate economies, and social architecture.

She founded the non-curated sound-exchange web project Opsound,[2][3] which functions through the use of music released exclusively under a copyleft license, and has been cited by Lawrence Lessig as an example of how Creative Commons works to enable artists to collaborate more freely and build on each other's work.

Pursuing her ongoing interest in issues surrounding money and economies of attention and exclusivity, she gained entry into Manifesta 4 by purchasing her entry from the Basel-based Christoph Büchel when that artist auctioned his participation rights on eBay[6] – which was itself an art piece/provocation.

Recent projects include Free Money[9] (shown in Vancouver, where she was invited to participate in the Live Biennale[10]), Free Press (shown in Röda Sten Contemporary Art Space in Göteborg, Sweden, where the artist created an open access publishing house[11]), ReadingBetween, and InTheConversation.

Randolph teaches and lectures as a visiting artist and has appeared in that capacity at the UCRIA conference, Open Engagement, Maryland Institute College of Art, the GEL conference, Massachusetts College of Art, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, RISD, and in collaboration with D. Graham Burnett at Princeton.