Re: FILE: Save As: Glossy Print

hello Ophra,

I read your message in the Rhizome list, and I am sending some comments.
There are a lot of interesting questions that can be discussed, but I am
bringing just three little comments (excuse me for grammatical errors):

a) We can think about three spheres with what the festival is related
to: the artists, the art system (the system of contemporary art, that is
not, necessarily, familiarized with art and new media), and the public.
I would put the people that work with art and new media (but not as
artists) in the first sphere. To this group of people, yes, maybe
several events and festivals need to be more focused on specific
questions. When there is no focus, the works lose in strenght, because
there is no other relation among before beyond 'all they use new media'.
The exhibition lose in impact, too.

b) but, for the others two spheres, there is a lot of work to be done.
Unhappily, the contemporary production of art and new media is
unfamiliar not only to the public audience, but also to a big part of
artistic and academic audiences in Brazil. So, a work of 'divulgation'
is necessary. It is necessary to remember, every year, that this
production exists. I am not justfying the fact of than FILE hasn't a
theme, a focus, but I think it is important to see it in the brazilian
context;

c) I cann't think about anything closer to the situation you describe to
the actual system of avaliation of academic production in Brazil. We are
in days where everything is quantitative; people send papers to any kind
of event just because it can that 'i will have more one paper
published'. The reasearch is losing to the bureocracy. I don't know how
is the avaliation of academic production in other countries, but that is
our situation nowadays. It is like if artist sent their work to any kind
of event, indepent of what it can be. It is a sad situation, anyway.


bye, and happy 2005,
andrei


Ophra Wolf wrote:

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