Hi Marius
thanks for your feedback. admittedly the economic model for the
individual artist was not foremost on my mind when I wrote this text, I
did not really touch on that issue. But if you want to know my opinion,
i dont see it as negatively as you do, with media artists existing in a
The Next Layer or: The Emergence of Open Source Culture
Draft text for Pixelache publication, Armin Medosch, London/Vienna 2006
- 2007
First we had media art. In the early days of electronic and digital
culture media art was an important way of considering relationships
between society and
Armin,
Interesting text. The formulation of a high art version of media art is
particularly relevant at the current moment, as more and more media
artists are trying to cross over into the commercial art world, getting
gallerists and selling their work as commodities.
While I understand your
