Hi Renee,

Humble apologies!... as soon as I pressed the send button I realized I 
shouldn't have included your name!... in doing so I misrepresented your 
comments, but accidently... I fully appreciate your comment to Alan was 
affirmative feedback... and concur with your thoughts on the role of 
netbehaviour. 

Sorry, Bob


----- Original Message ----
From: Renee Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
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Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 12:28:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] no



If I may paraphrase the previous comments of Renee, Michael and yourself: "How 
dare you criticize someone as brilliant and prolific as Alan? You obviously 
don't know what you're talking about. Come on, prove you're qualified to give 
an opinion." 




Bob, this is poor paraphrasing.  Look back at my mail, I was giving feedback to 
Alan...saying that I appreciate his posts and wanted him to go on.  I'm 
watching this piece evolve and am not quite ready to give a judgement on the 
work one way or another until it fully unfolds.  I was affirming to Alan that I 
support his working process...even, when I might not always get it.  I was also 
suggesting that netbehaviour is a great place to exercise such processes of 
enquiry poetic or otherwise.  


No-one, however acclaimed, is above criticism. 




you're totally right!  I couldn't agree more.

Having read Alan's numerous offerings recently I offered him honest feedback. I 
believe he's going down a cul-de-sac. I believe he should give it a rest. He 
disagrees. That's fine. I took the trouble to tell him. I don't need to defend 
my action. Feedback is important - vital! - to artists. Mine was deliberately 
terse and sincere. The artist can take it or leave it. There's no problem :-)




Yes, there's no problem at all in giving feedback... and my mail was doing 
precisely that, but with a different conclusion than yours  :-)


all the best,


Renee
www.geuzen.org

Bob


----- Original Message ----
From: karen blissett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity 
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Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 2:13:51 AM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] no

Hi Bob,

>"Total subjectivity" is the unavoidable condition of babies... I find in an 
>adult, the relentless spew is obnoxious egoism... James Joyce seemed to have 
>done the subjective voice so much better 90 years ago... 

I do not normally bother discussing on lists, because what I have unfortunately 
learned through such endeavours is, that many who explore ideas through the 
process of argument are more interested in the comfort of proving themselves 
right, rather than discovering other possibilities. 

Would you be tempted to expand and share your ideas of what you feel is 
personally important in a larger context, rather than talking about work that 
was created 90 years ago and Alan's inability to satisfy your idea of art? 

There is so much more to explore :-)

Karen 




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