The whole thing strikes me as utterly irrelevant, except for those
who want to make a career or a business in some arcane layers of art
administration connected to large institutional players.
Art-Agenda art-age...@mailer.e-flux.com wrote:
The structure of the internet is about to shift in
Yes, this is all important but also local in a way. Art is an English
word. So why not discuss .kunst? .amsterdam is clearly local. It was
in fact bought by the city government, in fact to make money with this
new gained symbolic monopoly.
Dave Winer has argued on his blog against more TLDs in
Is there really going to be some kind of thoughtful vetting process to
get a .art domain? That seems rather dubious. If there's a stampede of
thousands of folks on day 1, who is going to sift through those in a
timely manner?
Also, what legitimacy / status will be conferred upon the winners of
Beginning in 1999 as an informal mailing list, e-flux is an artist-run
organization that has grown tremendously over the past ten years,
What is the legal form of e-flux? The information above, and on
the 'about' page of e-flux.com, is remarkably vague. There is no
indication that e-flux is a
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Betreff:The Art domain
Datum: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:40 -0400
Von:Art-Agenda art-age...@mailer.e-flux.com
*e-flux applies to develop the new .art internet domain*
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to inform you about a new development
