BYOB Chicago: jonCates, Digital Arts Collector - jonCates (2011). in the performance/projection "jonCates, Digital Arts Collector" i had same day Business Cards (1) printed which read:
jonCates Digital Arts Collector INSTITVTE FOR THE ANIMATED GIF jonCates, Founder && Archivist Special Collections department instanigif.tumblr.com the Business Card feels to me like an old-fashioned format for interpersonal interactions, like an antique form of communication or rather (self) promotion from an earlier era. at a recent conference (2) i was often asked for my business card (which i do not normally carry or even maintain current versions of) and presented w/a range of business cards from academics and artists. i found receiving these cards both novel and strange. this experience combined w/my invitation to participate in this most recent BYOB Chicago iteration of the ongoing series/platform. the BYOB Worldwide project initiated by Rafaël Rozendaal relies on Salon-style 'hanging' of the projections, social networks and networking and recent Web 2.0 technologies/platforms (such as tumblr, which the BYOB Worldwide site exists on and through). this intersection of very recent technologies and the turn of the second to last century approaches (late 1800's/early 1900's Academic Art exhibition formats) strikes me as similarly novel and strange, like business cards from New Media Artists and academics... more... http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/joncates/byob-chicago-joncates-digital-arts-collector-joncates-2011 Furtherfield's Community Blog http://www.furtherfield.org/blogs _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
