darko fritz on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:18:10 +0100 |
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FW: Syndicate: DEMAND FOR NEW SELECTION OF VIDEONALE 9 |
> so i guess this type-o][negative][ thing is rampant throughout the > artworld. 10 points for trying to combat it. well. thanx for 10 points ... and supporting this don quixotean action. who knows, maybe it will work if videonale 9 get some alarming number of mails ... so, people, it is up to you ... to send or not, to distribute or not ... i know, those are things which just happening over and over and just everyone playing blind. when ones work in the artworld, as years goes there are less chance to let go any action about these things ... at least we can gossip on list about these things and keep ourself informed ... it can be a nice database to fill the holls in art history ... ... and maybe such an actions can move something --------------------> if you don't try it will not happened on itself ... maybe syndicate can fulfill its [selfironical] name ... :) another cup of tea is: what will happened to art if marcell duchamp fountain was overlook by jury? i think that is a great work of jury as same of matt / marcell ... those was same form of selected exhibiton as we have today ... maybe we can think of different forms of selected exhibitions after 100 years? all the best [put here some revolutionary slogan with !!! at the end, like fight for your right !!! , or something] d From: "Phonet][r][ix" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au> To: syndicate <syndicate@aec.at> Subject: Re: Syndicate: DEMAND FOR NEW SELECTION OF VIDEONALE 9 Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2001, 3:59 > > 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 > ------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