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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