miltosmanetas on Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:22:59 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Petra Cortright's VVebcam is removed by Google |
No problem. Cortright's work is not damaged by Google's veto, the opposite: the veto highlights the importance of her work. Google has now become a side of reality, Cortright instead is art which is "the step after reality". Cortright's problems will start only later, when her work will be assimilated by magazines, Museums and all other platforms of reality such as Google. At that point, her work will appear to be nothing else but art. But this is the life of objects after all and we should know it by now: when art becomes reality is also necessary for the artist to walk a step further and un-do it. Most artists can't make that step. Google-which as a "young man" has been some kind of artist- definitely can't. As for Petra, she doesn't have to worry for all this now. To say this in art-slag, "Petra is not only "Younger than Jesus", she is also "cooler than Google". Miltos Manetas, Rome, Dec 2011 Sent from my BlackBerry? smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Andres Manniste <amanniste@rsight.net> Sender: nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:38:13 To: Nettime-l<nettime-l@kein.org> Subject: <nettime> Petra Cortright's VVebcam is removed by Google Google has banned Petra Cortright's video "VVebcam" because of her search terms. Her important art piece expresses the ridiculousness of search terms and in the infinite wisdom of Google, is banned for its use of such terms! <....> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org