Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 22:58:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From: p_petiot-AT-euronet.nl (PETIOT_Pierre)
Subject: Re: electronic exhibition


Hi, Michael.

>In order to make planning this thing easier for us, perhaps we should
>consider breaking the exhibition up into large "pavilions" -- surrealism,
>phazes, associated, etc? 

It is certainly nice to group the works according to the criteria you give, 
for practical organization purposes, but I don't really like the idea of 
having an exhibition according to these sorts of categories. To me it looks 
like a garden in which you would put all the trees in a corner and all the 
flowers in another corner, etc... I love the idea of pavilions, but not with 
a group per group classification.

>When it comes time to do the exhibition, then, its
>possible to do several things with the organization: we can set it up with
>an image-map painting showing the various pavilions, thereby creating a kind
>of space in which to exhibit. 

This idea is simply beautiful !
Also since the media authorizes it, we can have several perspectives on the 
exhibition, and build all the pavilions we like, it's just a matter of a few 
links.

>This way we don't necessarily have to lose the
>kind of effects (visually) that make surrealism what it is. Also, it would
>make the visiting of the exhibition different from that experienced in
>"normal" electronic galleries. 

I think it is very important to do better than all we know about electronic 
galleries

>Also, I think we should do a name index of all the contributors, connected
>to the works, so that if someone wanted to see a specific artists's
>contributions, they could.

Of course, that's part of the multiple perspectives allowed by the media.
We may also sort things according to the nationality or according the each 
existing group etc...
And we might have one perspective per known aspect of surrealism. This costs 
nothing in terms of disk space, since the "glue" shall be textual 
information anyway and that's no cost.
But that would provide several ways of "visiting" with each time a different 
point of view. In fact several exhibitions and several ways of "feeling" it.

>I have a few ideas about how to make this look appropriate, but I need to
>get them straight before I post anything. In the mean time, any thoughts on
>the above?

I think we should write down all possible ideas and ways to organize this 
exhibition.
Discussing that in the email list helps a lot in finding new ideas.
Also, digging into technical issues is important.  I am trying to experiment 
with the Netscape 3.0 beta for the moment.I have a manual scanner and a 
sound blaster board. I shall also attempt digging a bit into Java scripts if 
I can.

But the major issue is to gather and classify the works.

We should really make a plan and open one thread on this list per plan item.
But I am not ready yet myself for proposing a plan. I think we must go on 
gathering ideas, works and techniques.

I am OK with the proposal of Carlos about gathering some money. That's most 
often useful, but I think that ideas and works are more important at the 
present moment.

Who can work on the HTML ? 
Only Barrett, Michael and me ?
Who cannot work on HTML ?

Your turn to play. 
(By the way, I am afraid I forgot "Collective Absence" more than once...)

*
 
Pierre PETIOT
See also...
http://www.euronet.nl/users/p_petiot/poiein/poiein.html
http://www.euronet.nl/users/p_petiot/index.html