Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:03:11 -0800 (PST) From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-ncal.verio.com> Subject: Re: notart On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Gerald O'Connell wrote: > > > >"Net-art" is usually a tired modernist rationalization in search of > >arts-funding/critical-authentication by appropriating second-hand science. > >Silly claims of new "interactivity" usually are also involved... I tend to > >follow art-online that isn't necessarily _about some aspect of the Net, > >but rather introduces virtual streams, flows and spaces. > I think your healthy scepticism about the claims for interactivity is > thoroughly laudable. > And if you're saying, with this talk of 'streams', that the medium's > most significant contribution may be in the introduction of new time- > base (and maybe time-base-distance) parameters into the art > appreciation/production nexus, then I'd say you're definitely onto > something. If you (or anybody) can develop that theme then I'd love to > hear about it. My intuition tells me that this is a rich vein, but > something ( probably about the restrictions of my own working practices > to date I suppose) makes it tricky for me to think through... Yes! (I can't help suggesting that my own 12hr-project is an attempt to at least begin to sketch-out such possibilities.) It's also a move toward an equitable apprehension of an artist's creative progression-distribution; someone might invest in shares-involvement (something like the David Bowie future-earnings scenario) -- the artworks themselves become like tokens or vectors or suspended certificates of recognition...(?) /:b --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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