john, all -
i have thought at this, too
the last years - but you need
'high tech' stuff to realize this
(programming, sensors, video projectors etc ...)
- means a good sponsore (or much money).
there is some conjunction here
to the text of Steve Dietz.
but speaking of the technological aspect and net/web/i-art,
i tend to follow an opposite position.
the technological development esp. in the broadband
has given the (independant) artist tools he never was
able to use (to buy) before.
nevertheless to finance the equiment (hard-, software)
is still a problem (would like to see an initiative thru which
artists could get free permission to use programs - a pool
of software given by software companies). but more important
becomes the time you need to learn the handling of the new software.
(+ there is a lack of tech-equipm. at institutions, too - at universities,
galleries, museums ...... and/or unfortunately it is to some rare places
... ie. zkm in germany)
(by the way - i am a bit bored about all these 'art and technology' themes
in presentions where digi art is reduced to the digi aspect and not the
artistic one and becomes for the visitor a technological gimmick, sensation
- read in the way 'art is celebrating technology')
my experiences in presenting net art in an open public are limited (whose
not?).
In Paris i got the impression that there is a lack in handling the computer
by the visitors (therefore i realized a self running piece with the
possibility to interact + an installation, which was not interactive - i
hope it was in the mind of the visitors). In a common presentation in
Bristol i thought 'it is impossible' to present net art - because it gets
something else and the aspect of intimacy is lost.
(there have to be found/realized ways to present these different aspects by
showing 'net-art', i prefer to say i-art, in public places - environments
where the visitor is stimulated (or at least gets the chance) to experience
the quality of the pieces).
(sorry for my - germane - not native english)
reiner
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