This seems more like artwork and less like curation. If the internet
can eliminate curators or institutions, it also eliminates artists
or absorbs and clones them... perhaps this is institutionally
reactionary or simply a logical outcome/trajectory. Artists are not
placed into a discourse with each other through a curating person/
institution, but are raw data, stored, transmitted and "datatectured"
by a "spaceplace."
Space is not a place, it is anti-place. We have always had
orbitization, it's called EGO. There is no space hatch escape from
human qualities, after the dance of "raw" data, they (and the
politics) are there... those who aren't recognizable pop icon samples
or endlessly repeating mashed up art superstars, their steins in a
blob-art are clear, those who struggle, emergent on the periphery are
not. These hungry orbiters gather in their space junk outfits
against the meta.ethics of assimilation...
Other projects like the Visitors Studio (http://
www.visitorsstudio.org) do much more justice to these new media
logics... co-curation, co-authorship and REAL-time communication
facilitated by network means.
Ndrew
On Jun 23, 2006, at 7:23 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> spaceplace is the art in the age of orbitization. orbit being the raw
> material of space, its energy storage and transmission system, space's
> escape and attraction for earthlings. orbit is sculpture.
> spaceplace is
> datatecture.
>
> spaceplace generally has nothing new to offer meta ethics.. not
> much at
> all. measured against spaceplace topoi - the open, tolerant, shared,
> peaceful and cultural policy of near earth orbit, the space between
> globalization and orbitization, that is, how to sense it and make
> sense
> of it, the fun that everyone is a satellite and mediacentrcity has
> entered the black hole along with geocentricity
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