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Re: Syndicate: DEMAND FOR NEW SELECTION OF VIDEONALE 9 |
At 03:08 AM 2/03/01 +0100, you wrote: > > >******************************************************** >PLEASE DO NOR REPLY THIS MESSAGE. JUST FORWARD IT TO info@videonale.org >******************************************************** > > >DEMAND FOR NEW SELECTION OF VIDEONALE 9 > >The Videonale 9 [Bonn, D] selection jury consisting of five members announce >that they made selection of more than 1500 entries of video and internet >artworks in six days, working in two groups. >I found that is physically impossible. >This is demand that Videonale 9 make selection again, with respect to >artworks and effort that artists invest in their works and application for >festival. darko, i admire yr staunch defense in regards 2 the unfair selection, but this type of thing goes on all the time [it shouldn't i know]....take the trAce/AltX Hypertext comp, the shortlisted entries where pre-picked by the directors of both trAce and Alt-X and then given 2 the judge to chose the winner...this fact was not made public 2 the competitors...also, in this years Maid In Cyberspace festival the reasons they gave as 2 my non-n.clusion were very unsatisfactory and verging on the non-professional [this after them sending me a rejection letter with another arists name on it], and boiled down to: >"There was therfore >not intense criticism of it as it failed to strick a cord or resonance >whithin us. That's all I can say." [a direct quote from the curator, typos and all]. so i guess this type-o][negative][ thing is rampant throughout the artworld. 10 points for trying to combat it. chunks, mez . . .... ..... net.wurk][.who][ n.sert no here xXXx + www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress