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List I meant to mention this before but Monika Fleischmann did a study in 2002, or maybe before, on "gatekeeping' in the new media arts http://netzspannung.org/cat/servlet/CatServlet/$files/308998/Fleischmann_Gatekeeping_2003_en.pdf and in the people she interviewed= its clear many of the organisations and curators that organised exhibitions were very much in the advocacy mode in the 1980s at times when very few museums or established venues had any interest in new media art= ( is computer art , art ?)=pioneering artists found themselves organising venues to show work of themselves and their colleagues it took a long time before 'professional curators' appeared in the new media scene (where were the whitney or the tate then ?) but as Fleischman points out the 'old boys networks' very quickly get established and curators play a very different role than did the artists who organised exhibits ( never mind the galleries that sign artists under contract and then serve as curators for museums showing their stable of artists) yeah-maybe ethics isnt the right world, but something to do with integrity anyway roger malina