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Re: [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Venice, an option |
want something new ? forget the avant-garde ! gET Ready for the En-gArde ! http://pavu.com kuni a *crit : > dear vuk, > > > In order to shed some quality light on net.art, I have decided to curate a > > paralel show where I have invited some people you all might know. The desire > > is to contextualize my shit. > brilliant idea. > esp. as any avantgarde later to be known as such > needs more but one lonely soldier ;-) > [and for those naive beings who'd assumed at this > point the net as such would have been enough > context to contextualize net.art: wake up. here > we are talking about a traditional art world biennial > thing] > > well, anyway: > > the catalogue of the other show (alexei, rtmark, heath, > > 01010101..., jodi, tom jennings, vinylvideo, vuk) > just in case this is already the list of participants you > invited for the other show, it seems to > me that the significant other is significantly > underrepresented. > I mean: 50% of 0100101110101101.org is really poor, isn't it? > > is this part of some extra sophisticated ironic strategy > - like: 'they' want to represent the absolute net.artist, > I will show 'them' that absolute net.art is _really_ > matching all the needs for a new avant-garde... > ...because avantgarde was, is and will always be "men only"... > ...because in times that see more and more > people so eager not only to make, but also to write > truenet.art.history one should not hesitate to meet > the needs of traditional art history, that is, a.o., > to give people later on the opportunity to ask: > "why have there been no great women net.artists?" > ...or just > ...because net.art, I mean: real net.art and esp. > true net.art (that is: the context you named above) > definitely was (and is) more or less "men only"? > > or do you just want to make some pun on/fun of the good > old nettimers, themselves so often (and sooo > unwarranted indeed) blamed for being an old > boys' club? > > in any of the above named cases: > brilliant! > > immensely amused: > kuni > ps: > neither artist, nor net.artist, nor feeling > excluded by any criteria for net.art.avantgarde ;-)) > - just: immensely amused, though... > anyway, just in case you need some inspiration as > net.art.curator, just mailto:boys@obn.org > you know, for sure we can help you out with some names > & urls... > > _______________________________________________ > Nettime-bold mailing list > Nettime-bold@nettime.org > http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold