> Or is it just that that the _rhetoric_ of the medium says it will be
> good for the job of international communication and networking? I'm
> struck by the relatively few examples of successful international
> net.art activism (irational being amongst them) and I'd be very
> interested to hear about what does work, and what is just rhetoric.
> I'm also interested that artists like Susan Collins and Paul Sermon
> have work which is very much about skills of enabling dialogue,
> although it may not be explicitly activist.
For MVC the important thing about online strategies is to target an off line
social context.
I do reject the idea of net activism, the net is only one of the tools or
mediums to reach people, there is no such a thing as "political art" or "art as
activism", activism is there if the real concern is to make a social
statement/action as a political actor.
I like to think about irational.org as one of this political actors, not an
online server, and results are there: work/campaigns are developed via online
tools. MVC has target the public assistance that should be provided by the
national lottery (Mexico), the inclusion of the homeless people as part of the
national census (Mexico), or the discounts/free admision to cultural centres
and public transport using student ID cards (international), pirate radio
stations are opened, help is provided, statements are made.
I think results should not be expected on line but in the idea of the world we
want to live in and in daily life...
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