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Re: FW: Syndicate: DEMAND FOR NEW SELECTION OF VIDEONALE 9 |
>dear darko and others, dear andreas [zkrrr - b ku!et u] >i can see some curators with itching fingers resisting the kind of response >that i am going to give to justified yet difficult claims. > >the problem is, as you point out, the large number of submissions for >festivals and competitions and, related to that, the limited time that >juries have to evaluate them. sure, it would be ideal to have a jury that >can sit for a month and watch all the tapes, explore all interactive >projects and, even better, travel to see installations and performances. in >this way you would still get partial, yet fairly informed jury judgements. >it would also cost a fortune and explode most festival budgets. > >alternative 1 is not to have open calls but curated programmes which >completely rely on what the curators see, like, or find interesting enough. >very often, this system creates good, consistent programmes, yet it also >tends to create forms of nepotism and often a lack of surprises (which you >do not necessarily circumvent by open submissions). financially, it is >manageable because you save money on a jury and on sending back tapes. > >alternative 2 is to restrict the submission of works (thematically, per >genre, technically, age/sex/nationality of the artist, ...); however you do >this, artists will complain that they have interesting new work which does >not fit the categories, a fact that curators are aware of and often also >not happy about. but what do you do with 1500 entries when you have an >audience that expects quality evaluations? they do not want to see 600 >tapes, but 30, maybe 60. they also cannot look at 500 websites, they want >to see 10, maybe 20 particularly good ones. and the artists in the festival >also want the appropriate attention - we can all imagine what it is like >when you are in a 'democratic' show with 1499 other artists ... > >so, what to do? look. at least peruze all ov dze entr!ez. not aksez!ng dze entr!ez = shl ue sa! konduz!v 2 b!e b!e fraudulensz vr!!endl!.nn ------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