And to whom is New Media art insignificant? On 12/1/2007, "aabrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>dear Eric > >Could you name these significant paintings, photos and installations made >in the last 12 years? > >Opening the doors to self publishing and networked visual expression might >not have produced great images and text (but that's in for discussion also), >but it has produced new communication spaces and very significant volatile >interactions. It is contributing every day to giving people air in a totally >by economics determined world, that only interacts with them on a customized >base and accustoms them to being treated as databases. > >Eric, if you want me to take you serious, you should start to give precise >critics on works you don't think meeting the standards you would like to >use. > >yours Annie > >On 1/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Why is New Media Art so insignificant? >> I have been going over the last 12 years of New Media >> works trying to find a significant work of art and I >> have come up empty. Not lost however, and that is a positive thing. This >> failure isn't true of Painting, Photography, >> Installation Art. Those media have all produced >> memorable works. >> Film and Video have flourished as well ( I think that >> helps explain the flood of videos by new media >> artists), but the use of new media for visual >> expression is sadly on the last bench of the stadium. >> Even the so-called success of electronic literature >> pales when compared with the interesting work created >> in the printed media. >> Why? >> It doesn't make sense at first. >> Opening the doors to self publishing and networked >> visual expression should have produced great images and >> text by now, but it hasn't. >> Whats wrong? >> I think there is a strange attractor act work here. >> Works that go through the pain and prejudice of the >> existing mandated mechanisms actually come out the better for it. >> There is rigor and self-criticism that is sorely >> lacking in networked publishing and visual expression in *communities*. >> For me to acknowledge this is blasphemy in many ways. >> I was an early proponent of the creative commons (see >> Leonardo, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1998), pp. 297-298). >> Is a culture important when it concerns >> itself with determining what works contain quality and depth and operate >> as a necessary filter to keep out those works that deserve to fail? Well, >> no more lazy art. No More easy graphics. >> If New Media wants to grow up, then it has to set some >> rigorous standards and demand that the work ACTUALLY be >> culturally significant on a broad scale. Self indulgence is fun, but it's >> lazy and middling, and stupid. >> My avatar died last month, send condolences to Dymes Mulberry on Second >> Life. Eric >> >> >> + >> -> post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -> questions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz >> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support >> + >> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the >> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php >> > > > >-- >..mp3 Archives and photos of Oppera Internettikka - Protection et Sécurité >online. >http://www.intima.org/oppera/oips/index.html >http://bram.org/info/oips/ > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
