>Oh, god, not another list.
he he ok no problem on that!! :)
>I see from your links you're in an MFA program (or whatever it's called
>there).
MFA program?? University Masters? not sure which link you followed
that indicated this, I have done a Masters already in "interactive
research", that was in Paris at the arts decoratifs, my links are
quite bad at the moment because i have'nt has access to my principal
site (asquare.org) via ftp for more than a year now, so its extremely
dated and makes me look like a kid of eighteen doing some *cool*
shockwave site. bannerart's probably the latest big work i've been
involved in. a year and a half ago when i did my masters i did a
project called "intimacy and loneliness" which was a wearable device
hooked up to both a voice recognition module and a website that was a
performative piece and unfortunity is offline now.
>I take it you're in Dublin but you write about applying for English
>funds so I assume your home is in England (or is it the other way around?) I
>now live in exile on an island in the Gulf of Mexico but I spent the first
>half of my life in Idaho and the second half in New York City with a stop in
>Indiana for Graduate School in painting, which I never finished.
i am irish (i come from cork), moved to england for four years
(mainly birmingham) where i did a diploma and a degree and then moved
on to paris to do a masters, just over a year ago i moved back to
england, london this time, where i am for the moment. had quite a
lot of contact with net.artists in france, incident.net, tamara laļ,
people like that.
>You seem to be making of net.art what you need to. Don't worry about Vuk's
>retirement.
not worried as such, just feel its a shame he felt there was nothing
left to do. both net.arts loss and his!
>Don't be too hard on curators. The role has changed dramatically for a
>variety of reasons over the past twenty years. Institutionally they've had
>to take on more and more work they probably shouldn't have to do and that
>has made the role seem more important. In the 'seventies it was critics and
>art historians artists attacked. Curators, except for a few, mostly European
>superstars connected with Documenta, the Venice Bienale etc, then were
>rather kindred spirits of artists. How and why this has changed is a topic
>for next month.
oh don't get me wrong i'm not being too hard on curators, i'm quite
prepared to work along side curators in anyway i can and am seriously
thinking of doing a second masters in ether new media curating or
teaching (either of which is very worth while in my viewpoint). i
don't feel opposed to curators either but agree there are a lot of
artists who do, i think this is mainly due to frustration more than
anything else, frustration at the fact that success or lack of it can
rely so much on whether the curator picks your work or not. normally
a 'form' or 'tool' such as net.art should liberate artists from that
constraint and it does work for some, jimpunk being a good example,
but then the artist needs to be both artist and publicist at the same
time!
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