On 30/10/13 11:22 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: > But Rob, is Rhizome a part of the etablishment?
They've worked very hard to be. > Cultural imperialism are > for me all the infamous tv-series we are invaded with, CSI somewhere, > Hostages (made by Israeli television) and showing horrendous scenes of > torture as the most normal things, Homeland (same Israeli and US > collaboration), etc etc Not sure what Israel has to do with this, but Rhizome's selecting artists to make work to fit a particular format as part of their brand is a clear cut example of cultural imperialism. > And is not Britain opening the Booker prize for American writers as well? It is but that is not state funding that local organizations have been denied. Rhizome as the Starbucks of new media art is not a positive development. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
