Re: To-morrow the Minitel! (!)

Also in France in 1985, Roy Ascott used the Minitel system in his work Organe et function d'Alice aux pays des merveilles, a mash-up of a bio text and the fairy tale, for the exhibition "Les Immateriaux", Centre Pompidou, curated by Lyotard. Ed Shanken www.artexetra.com Art and Electronic Media

Re: What if a work of net.art sold for $34 million?

pective of the future, it will be seen to have valued the wrong things. Ed Shanken www.artexetra.com On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Florian Cramer wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Edward Shanken > wrote: > > > What would the world be like if Roy Ascott's

What if a work of net.art sold for $34 million?

What would the world be like if Roy Ascott's "La Plissure du Texte" (1983) sold at auction for $34.2 million instead of Gerhard RIchter's ?Abstraktes Bild?? In what sort of world (and artworld) would that be possible? I asked this question a couple days ago on Facebook and it has generated some in