caught in an an interlope-hole.

From Jeremy Turner - Replying Patrick Lichty:

K..there is a lot to digest there and I only have 30 mins of online time tonight as I am on a borrowed terminal but I can put my tw-bits in here for a couple of points.

The "Cultural Capital" farm has already been enivisoned by Jeremy Rifkin in his "Age of Access" book a few years ago. Yes, Net Art is the next field for coporate harvesting. Actually, it is already here.

I wish I had an immediate solution for the corporate co-optation of art but honestly, I am too personally burdened with financial tensions and when it comes to that, I just become grateful that more avenues exist to pay my rent.

I am sure the rest of the forum has more of a handle on how market dynamics allow artists to continue to get desperate over paying their rent amd become increasingly disabled and burned out over thinking up creative solutions to much more complex problems than can be discussed by Artists alone.

I am very inspired by Laurie Anderson's comments though so maybe that will give me the incentive to participate more actively to finding political and economic solutions in order to free ourselves from Corporate interests.

It always takes the wise words of an Art-Star to get me off my ass? Why is this? Are they as worried about the rent as I am?

There must be a Higher Power, and yes, I am believing in miracles. For copping out on this reply, I will have a wad of bad karma dumped on me by daybreak ;-D

Jer