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
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
>
> *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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