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Mmmm, that's a nice dilemma for a Tuesday morning. I am keen for both Art/s and Aesthetics to be in there - partly because there's quite a lot of arts practice going on nowadays which is referred to as 'post-retinal' or downright unaesthetic. This could include a lot of what I do myself. Its well described in a piece by Grant Kester called 'Dialogical Aesthetics: a Critical Framework For Littoral Art' which I got from variant at http://www.variant.ndtilda.co.uk/9texts/kesterSupplement.html (Incidentally it also includes a bit about the generalisability question in relation to the ontology of particular critics or schools of criticism, specifically Greenberg.) And I like Steve's phone book list. We'd be in good company. Deborah. On 12/12/04 1:12 PM, "Elmes, Michael B" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > David - How convenient that the opportunity arose to play with 2 A's! > Personally, I am in favor of the Art/Aesthetics change (although I wonder if > it should be Arts rather than Art??) in part because it reflects how we have > changed as a group. > > Best, > Michael > > ________________________________ > > From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network on behalf of > David Barry > Sent: Sat 12/11/2004 10:06 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: AACORN? > > > Hi everyone, > > Our little webgroup is facing a dilemma. Given the problems we've run into > trying to host the site at LLD (too many firewalls), we've gone ahead and > purchased our own domain: www.aacorn.net (all the other 'acorn.dots' were > purchased long ago). > > The question is whether you think we should change our name to reflect the > site, something like "Art/Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organization Research > Network". I personally would like it--it would signal where the group is > focusing these days. But I can also see arguments against it. Please let us > know. > > As an update, things are starting to move along well now with the site. Ralph > Bathurst and John Churchley (and his son) are working directly on the it in > Dreamweaver, while the rest of us (Laurene Vaghan, Ken Friedman, Hilde, and > I) are helping out from the sidelines. Meanwhile we've put the old site into > mothballs--still using some of the content, but otherwise not fiddling with > it anymore. David >