At 13:10 03/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Maybe the architecture of the gallery is not such a problem here as much as
>the technical participation structures within networked art itself? How can
>the gallery/museum 'control' participation when it also becomes a matter
>of the audience's technical skill and personal technological investment?
well, in a recent SMS project we did with Knowsley Local Education
Authority, nearly 90% of 16 yr olds in the Knowlsely/Liverpool area had
mobile phones. this was way in excess of the 60% we were anticipating. I'd
suggest that, at least for younger audiences, personal technological
investment is far less of a barrier to access than the rhetoric of a
museum/gallery space...
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Matt Locke
Artistic Director
The Media Centre, Huddersfield
www.test.org.uk
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