Dear Simon and List,
Thanks Simon- good question!
In our Rethinking Curating book we do use Steve Dietz's 3 characteristics of net art: Connectivity, Interactivity and Computability, but concerning online video in particular, I suppose only Connectivity applies, concerning the particular 'live' or otherwise time factors: Live webcams, for example, are not quite live, and artists have used these factors to play with notions of reality, such as Rachel Reupke's Pico Mirador project outlined in the Rethinking Curating book. Runme.org, of course, is an excellent example of a folksonomy for software art.
At a recent lecture here for our MA Curating students, artist Jon Winet made an interesting point that much online video or popular TV, such as 'The X Factor' are actually documentary, but not in the classic tradition of documentary. Then we have so many copies/re-enactments of television (he showed some fabulous 'bears' miming a song/dance from Glee) are these documentary too, performance art, or live art? Do we hence need to differentiate online video documentary in certain ways? Is the only difference here the means of distribution, or is the content or duration of the videos moulded by the internet?
Barbara London of MOMA NY has criticised art museum's understandings of 'the new' as a shallow 'novelty hustle', and again, in the book, we outline the dangers of the 'hype cycle'.
So, your desire for good taxonomies is an excellent one, and beyond this, can we make quality judgements within these categories?
I'd be very interested to see what your students and you, and others on this list can come up with ...
Yours,
Beryl
On 15 Oct 2010, at 08:50, Simon Ruschmeyer wrote:
> Dear List-Members,
> the theme of the month is very interesting, thank you for starting the discussion!
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> Actually, I' am giving a course called "Curating the Web" this semester at Siegen University, Germany. Together with the students I would like to work out a loose taxonomy of creative/artistic online video and arrange a small (online) exhibition. Of course, the YouTube Play Biennale is one of our main reference points. The criteria to enter the competition were very open, just demanding the works to be "something different. Not what's now, but what's next". I'm wondering if we dont need stronger curational concepts to start a discourse about what web video/web art could be? In the seminar we will try to work out some thought but I am curious if there are allready concepts/taxonomies out there?
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> So my question would be if you know allready existing online video exhibtions or taxonomies?
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> Any help would be so much appreciated!Best Regards, Simon
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