today I was rummaging through calls for artwork for my students. And I've noticed a drop as of late in the calls for work specifically targeting anything remotely close to net art. most of them are for festivals, requiring some performative aspect, or searching for more mechanical contraptions, all of which not only "cost" in environmental and monetary ways, but also tend to only collect a local audience, with mostly semi-local talent. even video calls ask for DVDs to be mailed....
part of this might have to do with funding models....in terms of both maximizing the impact (large scale festivals) and requiring a model of audience participation that is easier to understand for arts funding bodies (look there are people!!!) and it would seem that everyone else is finally going net....newspapers, stores, banks etc.....so why is it the art world is backing off.....? I would love to meet others....in person....I dont think I've met even a handful of you on the list......but why havent we all developed easy ways to meet up? why aren't net artworks and net based art portals funded (sure there are small bits here and there) but fighting over a few rhizome or turbulence grants (and small ones at that) seems sad considering how much impact our work has.....in terms of raw numbers of audience for example....... I would be overjoyed to not travel.....to have more venues and exhibitions (funded ones) that allow us to simply send files, do chats, and play here...where we type.mouse _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
