Ever the optimist :) Simon Biggs
[email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ From: Jim Andrews <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:29:30 -0800 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis_at_the_ICA no, i didn't miss it. but one never knows how the categories slip and slide. so they currently have no engagement with net art whatsoever. galleries in general should hire net artists who know how to make dynamite sites for galleries and also involve net art in the galleries' sites. a gallery's site is such a natural for net artists. given what i've read of the ica, what the director means is he can't see how new media art and net art can make any money. that also could be rectified. ja http://vispo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Biggs" <[email protected]> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:11 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis_at_the_ICA Ah, Jim you must have missed last years news about the closure of the ICA¹s new media and live arts department. In short, the ICA use to have a net art programme, one of the few established institutions in the UK to do so. Then they closed it down. The Director stated at the time that new media art was not a compelling art form and therefore could not be prioritised. Best Simon _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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