Dear list,

my name is sakrowski, i am new to the list and so i have to introduce my self briefly - i work as an art-historian since 1999 in field of netart (started with the 
http://www.netart-datanbank.org and since 2007 up to today i'm working on the project http://www.curatingyoutube.net - which i will present more in detail on the workshop), my interests center around the questions: how to exhibit, how to archive net-based art and how netart is changing the art institutions … 

I would like to contribute some thoughts and questions which came up as I have read the posts.

Is there a difference between traditional broadcasts and new ones.
What is it?  The feedack channel (Rückkanal). (e.g. "artistic live response" http://vimeo.com/33671409 by Gretta Louw)
But the feedack channel is often overestimated, because our capacity as humans is limited (see e.g. the breakdown of the comment function in soundcloud e.g. the first 20sec of http://soundcloud.com/skrillex/avicii-levels-skrillex-remix). We are capable, for a 'one to one' or 'one to many' communication in live situations. 
Liveness is important sure, but for me more significant is, that the stream, the podcast, the video-performance is available also later. So we can process it when we have the capacity. But also in this case our capacity is limited. 
From this we get a system of representations. (some people think the curators should be the ones who select these - but as you can simply calculate at the case of the "guggenheim play"  
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play e.g. there was never a real possibility for one curator to view all contributors to decide - there was a filter (a team of Guggenheim curators) set up before "We received more than 23,000 videos, which a team of Guggenheim curators narrowed down to a shortlist of 125. The YouTube Play jury chose the top 25 videos from the shortlist of 125." guggenheim) 
This is the point where I'm thinking the discussion always focuses on the new medium, the new tools for creators, but we should also think about tools they adapt curating to the new time. I think there's also the same challenges in politics and why we should learn from this and test some of their solutions:
eg http://liquidfeedback.org/mission/  not only for curating maybe also in art institutions like museums/festivals … 

But back to the comparison of "old" broadcast and the net based broadcasts.
The new net based broadcasts have a strong multimedia quality - with a blend of film, sound, text, graphic, animation and interactivity (video response, live chat, text comment [including links]). If we understand a web link as a cut in film, then we could say that we are building up a our own stream/broadcast with multiple page visits in a browsing session . We  don't follow one authors perspective/narration, we follow/create more a flow or a stream of collective consciousness … … 


Thank you very much for the opportunity to share my thoughts
best,
Sakrowski

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