Hi Andreas, Interesting question.
"Is netbehaviour is becoming a privileged platform for the same incestuous incrowd as always is the case when concepts are mistaken for art? " It seems to be an ironic function of "openness" and "networked" platforms to produce convincing and perhaps self-fulfilling mirages of elites. Though my experience tells me that the perception of incrowds and elites has to also be subjective. I do know that *everyone* I encounter in this field (of critical, networked, art, technology, action and thought) considers themselves to be an outsider. Viewed from the outside one sees the networks and connections between other people more clearly. While this mailing list has over 700 subscribers we 'hear' from no more than 40 people in a month (sometimes many fewer). I remember being a confirmed lurker for years on other lists and having to endure a week of nervous sweats before posting something, followed then by the shock of no-one responding. The stress for newbies of joining a conversation that they are not sure is FOR them is not to be underestimated. This is even more exaggerated perhaps than in other public forums. People take a while to feel at home. Perhaps they make a post or two. Responding to others' posts is the more effective way to join the conversation. However unless we (subscribers to NB) find ways to make new people feel welcome to listen, read, speak, post (when ready) with connections that are meaningful to them we do not live up to our name. Netbehaviour is about experiencing what it is to be an artist working in the open scale free networks of contemporary digital/fleshy life- adding new nodes and forming and acknowledging new behaviours as we go. Ra ra! : ) Ruth
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