Invitation to read the article "The Craft of the Web.Artist: some considerations"

Oct. 8, 2005

Type: discussion

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to read my new article "The Craft of the Web.Ar=
tist: some considerations" at: http://www.sporkworld.org//index.php .
Please, comment my ideas on this subject!
My most special thanks to everyone who has sent me their definitions for th=
e expression "web.artist": Aloysio Novis, Clemente Padin, David Daniels,=
Isabel Aranda YTO.CL, Jessica Loseby, Jim Andrews, Joel Weishaus, Martha =
Deed, MEZ, Millie Niss and Patrick-Henri Burgaud.

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The Craft of the Web.Artist: some considerations

by Regina Celia Pinto

(Translated from Portuguese into English by Sabrina Gledhill)

"web.artist = a small cyberfish in a big electric pond." [Jessica Loseby =
- http://www.rssgallery.com/ ]

"web.artist = p[erformative.techne.p]lay+curiosity" [MEZ - http://www.hot=
key.net.au/~netwurker/ ; http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker/ ]

Much has been said and debated about the craft of the web.artist, but I hav=
e never found a paper that organizes or establishes standards for that craf=
t. Ever since I launched my project, " The Craft of the Web.Artist: Some an=
imated considerations," I have been trying to gather information on the sub=
ject. In a paper titled "The craft of the ethnographer, sociological method=
" (1902) [1], Mauss informs us that documents, witnesses and authentic fact=
s abound, and that a scientist must be a good observer, separating the whea=
t from the chaff. This is what I have been trying to do, while using my per=
sonal experience as a guide. In this article, I will attempt to give a crit=
ical interpretation of what I' ve been feeling, reading and observing, in p=
lain language.

Much more at: http://www.sporkworld.org//index.php

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Waiting for your comment,

Regina Celia Pinto

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