Commissions & judging -

patrick lichty wrote:

> Been going through a lot of the submissions, and honestly, I'm a bit
> surprised.
>
> Here are a few things I thought were/not interesting in context with
> the
> mission of Rhizome's commissions:
>
> Out of context (not 'artworks' per se, not pushing the medium, or just
> not that experimental):
> Online Journals
> Video databases
> Online video mixers
> Collaborative image projects
> Digital imaging projects (non-programmatic/server-side, etc)
> Blog _communitiea_, and blog art (Sabater & Olson really did a good
> chunk with that)
Your age is showing now :-)
Why not all of the above? Why do the older parameters of Internet Art still stick in our craw?
It's not about new porgramming models, or new conceptual constructs.
We seem to be at a watershed year here. There is a sublime indifference to older net standards and expectations. ARe the kids trying to tell us something?

>
> What I did find interesting was live data tracking,
> net.physical.computing, net art in a historical context, 'pop'
> netart,

Now your looking really old school, why bother when I can Blog, Vlog, Post and escape?
>
> Maybe I'm just a formalist, but works that really don't push the way
> we
> use/interrogate the media or do some over-the-top hybridization
> weren't
> that interesting to me.
But not to them…,
I know of a retirement package in the Keys, great weather, margaritas and Steely Dan playing in the background. Omward we go.
HAH
Eric

Eric Dymond wrote:

> I know of a retirement package in the Keys, great weather, margaritas
> and Steely Dan playing in the background.

Don't be dissing the Dan:
http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol35/m_clon.php3

curt cloninger wrote:

> Eric Dymond wrote:
>
> > I know of a retirement package in the Keys, great weather,
> margaritas
> > and Steely Dan playing in the background.
>
> Don't be dissing the Dan:
> http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol35/m_clon.php3
Hang on, I love the Dan,
Old School!
yours truly,
Dr Wu