Echoing Jen's post on all counts- great observations and suggestions. The context/aesthetics issue is a big one worthy of more discussion.
Two other thoughts come to mind: 1) To connect with work/people/audiences in other indie moving image practices, curators can put together a program and try to get existing microcinemas and media arts organizations to put it on their schedule - there are thriving venues and organizations in most cities. This way you not only don't deal with renting a hall/projector/etc., but you tap into the REST of the moving image community. 2) Along the same lines, I would be more interested in seeing videoblogging work in MIXED programs that also show other moving image work. I've been talking along these lines to a couple of places about programs for next season that try to grapple with the questions about aesthetics and context that Jen talks about in her post. Again, it takes curators. If this movement, for lack of a better term, is to have a real lasting place and influence in the broader spectrum of moving image work (I know the phrase is terribly academic but I can't think of a more inclusive one, and anyway as conflicted as I am about it I live a good percentage of the time in that world), it needs to be in dialog with other film/video/installation/web art/etc. work. _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com <<vlog links are here TRACE GARDEN now available in flash format on Blip! tracegarden.blip.tv ________________________________________________________ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
