Subject: Re: exhibition & questionairre 
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 12:58:38 +0100
From: "Theoretical Phys. MSc accnt. 13" <tpmsc13-AT-ic.ac.uk>


Let's do as Michael B suggested, think about Barrett's
questionnaire and post our answers early next week.

As for inclusions/exclusions I have three comments
	(1) people who are fundamentally opposed to any
use whatsoever of computer technology/Internet
automatically exclude themselves. I only hope not too many
will feel like that, but otherwise I don't have a problem with
that.
	(2) people who are not at present connected need
not be excluded at all, as pointed out by others all they need
is to send their texts or sufficienlty high quality photographs
of paintings/sculptures/objects to someone with a scanner,
and they are in business. Personally I do not have access to
a scanner, but  am quite confident that I would find some
solution. Does anyone have access? Or know somebody who
has? (Lynn? Pierre? Barrett?)
	(3) people who are "born-again Christians" or any
other kind of fascists automatically exclude themselves, as
they cannot possibly by any stretch of the term be called
surrealist. So political exclusions are inevitable, even
desirable (up to a point of course). Aesthetic criteria (of
which I'm always very suspicious) are definitely not enough:
surrealism is NOT an art-movement, it is much more than
that!
	Otherwise I have no objections or suggestions as to
what to include and what not, except to try out the
questionnaire. Trying it out in practice among ourselves
probably will lead to some modification of it, we might find a
few more questions are needed or something like that. Let's
see.

	And finally, I agree with Stuart that the exhibition
should be centered about themes (eros, revolt, dreams,
games.....) and not about "academic" or "technical" issues
(painting, poetry, historical....). The good thing about the
Internet is that the same work can appear in many different
pavillions, which goes a long way to solving the problem of
which category a given work belongs to. Let us try to think
about various such themes (Stuart already listed quite a few).

Frank