my last sentences should have been: The artmarket needs objects? Fast Quick and Effective.
Yours Annie On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Annie Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Marianne, > > I watched your results, read something of your description of the project > and some of the texts written by the workers. > Your project is profoundly disturbing : alarming, shocking and also good, I > wrote on my facebook page. > > I find it very difficult to express my reactions and find facts, not just > disturbing feelings. > The text written by the workers seem to be very personal and are > interesting to read - they give a lot of information about how people > experience online neighbourhoods and what it could be. > These lines contrast a lot with the videofiles - they show tired, staring, > lonely? people, what also might say a lot about these neighbourhoods. > So far the shocking and good part I guess. > > Now what do I find alarming? - > I am not sure, but probably the fact you choose to outsource a project > about virtual neighbourhoods, about networks, that you so easily dismissed > the artistic neighbourhood you tried to "instumentalise" for your project - > ( that is how I felt it). > > I think you didn't make a project about neighbourhoods or about visualising > virtual networks but about something else. I also have the feeling that the > "obligation" to have a final result primed over a process that could have > been interesting if you had insisted. > The a > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, list|marianne <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear all, >> Bringing a little love to the list! >> Since I involved your all in my work for the Digital Rules and Regs >> Residency, I thought I should share what happened now that the residency >> has come to an end. >> >> I wanted to visualise the neighbours (those I connect with in virtual >> networks like this) Response was limited - which I understand - so I decided >> to outsource the content creation to online workers - those that complete >> small tasks online in return for a fee. (Residency rules asked me to Obey >> the Market as well) >> >> I have been genuinely excited by what was returned. It has been lovely to >> see and subsequently connect with the globally dispersed neighbourhood >> workers. There is potential in this. >> >> Currently the content is simply presented as "neighbourwhos?" via here - >> http://www.rulesandregs.org/digital11.html >> (Includes initial notes on the work [in progress] as well as link to work >> by residency neighbours Salvatore Iacnesi and Oriana Persico) >> >> I am now working on how to finally present it (including thinking through >> the differentials between virtual and physical neighbourhoods) while >> considering how outsourcing and paying for content may work for this and >> future work (including the ethics involved in supporting an increasingly >> dominant market model that provides jobs for miniscule fees without any job >> security). >> >> >> Love to all the neighbours, >> Marianne >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > > *Touchée Manipilée* Photos, vidéo, texte de la performance du 7 mai à la > Tapisserie, Paris > http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/touche-manipule/ > > *Theme Song Revisited* (After Acconci) Video recording of the performance > : http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/after-acconci/ > > > <http://vimeo.com/22335939> > > -- *Touchée Manipilée* Photos, vidéo, texte de la performance du 7 mai à la Tapisserie, Paris http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/touche-manipule/ *Theme Song Revisited* (After Acconci) Video recording of the performance : http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/after-acconci/ <http://vimeo.com/22335939>
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