FYI, there is a new review of the Whitney's Bitstreams exhibition in the
magazine section of artnet.com
it's the one Jerry Saltz wrote for the Village Voice.
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/Frontpage.asp
It's disheartening to realize this is supposed to be mainstream new
media art criticism. While I agree with some points, alas Jerry doesn't
distinguish enough between Bitstreams and Data Dynamics and, after
trashing the show for being mediocre, then lauds some of the more
mediocre works for the fact that they're pretty, like painting.
I don't mean to derail the list - remember, our topic this month is
about smaller independent institutions and how they manage to produce
new media projects and launch them out into the world, and particularly
activist art.... I'd love to hear some feedback about some of the things
Denise Delgado wrote (which reminds me, if you're new to the list you
can check the archives on the web at
<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/new-media-curating.html>).
I was at Momentum, workshops organised by DA2 (the Digital Art
Development Agency) in Bristol last week, and Peter Ride introduced the
workshops by reminding us of a project by Nick Crowe called Service, in
which he created spoof websites for all the major art museums and
galleries in London, registering domain names they hadn't considered.
You can read about it at
http://www.squarecity.net/artist8.html
however, in keeping with the intent of his project, he has taken the
sites offline and given the domain names to the institutions...
a simple, activist, low-tech maneouver that garnered great weight in the
art world... a model perhaps?
sarah
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