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This might indicate that the work has some significance but I don't
think I'd go so far as to say that it is a definite indicator. There's a
lot of stuff still out there that is insignificant and I know of a
couple that no longer exist that were quite significant.

Jim Andrews wrote:
> Should you write about or otherwise link to net.art, one of the tests of
> whether you've chosen significant work is simply whether it continues to be
> available online over the years.
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This is an interesting, well expressed and tempting
proposition but *is it true?*
You could mean one of two things, or both -one that
the artist herself maintains her work up there ( and
hence her sticking power and determination, admirable
qualities to be sure, is an index of the ultimate
value of the work, but of course this is subject to
the financial wherewithal - and perhaps also stuff
like state of mental & physical health - to maintain
and publicise a site -certainly an issue in those
parts of the world which are less connected)
Or..if you mean it's to do with whether copies of
artists' works are archived on other sites, then I
think this is a partial indicator, but this is surely
a bit of a beauty contest approach -I'm sure some work
that is feted and celebrated now *will* stand the test
of time but equally much of it will disappear. On the
other hand, I'm absolutely convinced that much work
that is currently ignored and marginal will move
centre stage over time.
I think the uncertainty is inevitable & I personally
welcome it -makes life much more interesting!
best
michael
— Jim Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

> Should you write about or otherwise link to net.art,
> one of the tests of
> whether you've chosen significant work is simply
> whether it continues to be
> available online over the years.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
>
>
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> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
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> > Jim Andrews wrote:
> > Should you write about or otherwise link to net.art, one of the tests of
> > whether you've chosen significant work is simply whether it
> > continues to be
> > available online over the years.

> Pall Thayer wrote:
> This might indicate that the work has some significance but I don't
> think I'd go so far as to say that it is a definite indicator. There's a
> lot of stuff still out there that is insignificant and I know of a
> couple that no longer exist that were quite significant.

But of course. And, as Michael pointed out, there are places in the world
where it is not particularly feasible to maintain sites. When the economic
crash occurred in Argentina a few years ago, Postypographika disappeared,
which was an early and energetic poetical net.art project by Fabio
Doctorovich and friends. And when net.artists die, their sites may
disappear. When my friend Ana Maria Uribe from Argentina informed me that
she was ill (I didn't know how ill), I had been thinking anyway for some
months of asking her if she wanted to mirror her work on my site; her work
and mine go together well and, playful as her work is, she approached it
very seriously. She was able to ftp her site to vispo.com and it is a
permanent part of my site now, as long as my site is up.

I agree that it is not a "definite indicator". However, a committment to
trying to keep the work available is usually present in those who are
serious about net.art. And that is something that crosses my mind in whether
to write about/link to work.

Then again, Kafka asked his executor to burn his work. Luckily that did not
happen.

ja
http://vispo.com

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