a chance for brains to work on making us rich

Dearest All,

Excuse the overblown and awkwardly worded subject
line, but it does point towards..ahem…my point.

Perhaps I can make a slightly askew statement and say
that idea of supporting ones self through their art
can be tied (not solely but related to) two other
factors (again not the only factors): One (yes I like
to list), the generation of larger audiences for our
work, and Two, more and more diverse and more
personalized engagement with our audience.

First the second: people collect prints (copies of
paintings or photographs) often because they are
signed, because they know that the artist they admire,
that touches them, has touched, has added to the
print. So ….how can we….being all creative and
intelligent and quirk-handsome, how can we devise new
methods to make our work both universally available
and personalized? Perhaps there needs to be some type
of signing? Perhaps work can have additions, like
variants of the work (which we do already)? Perhaps
the work could be tied to the physical object the work
contains. Like much of my work is ficto-biography. So
could I create artifacts to compliment that work?

Secondly the first: of course, you say in a gurgling
mad voice, of course we need larger, more varied
audiences. Yes, but then what is being done to gather
those audiences? Most of us shoot for the Ars Elec or
the Siggraph or the Tate or whatever. But the
audiences there are largely ourselves. Poetry has the
same problem. But poetry does better then we, despite
it being doomed to small sections of bookstores, and
we with the entire web, and the skills to manipulate
said environment.

I suppose my call should fall to myself, but I am just
a displaced country boy who forgets the punch line at
fancy parties.

cheers, Jason Nelson

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Comments

, Dirk Vekemans

Jason & all,
Concerning point second the first:

Perhaps we also need to be very much aware of the fact that Net Art is
irritating: people look for information on websites, when none is given they
get irritated.

Even when 'advertised' as such, and 'visited' by users ready to 'experience'
Net Art, Net Art remains 'contaminated' by user habits of 'going online'.

Trying to escape the browser context (pop-up windows and other strategies of
taking over browser control) tend to add to that basic feeling of irritation
instead of diminishing it & when you look at it, those strategies are very
aggressive indeed.

There's aa older piece on this at the NkdeE blog at
http://nkdee.blogspot.com/2005/03/pop-out-progress-some-real-window.html
if anyone is interested in what i tend to think on these questions on rainy
days

have a nice weekend,
dv



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Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: a chance for brains to work on making us rich

Dearest All,

Excuse the overblown and awkwardly worded subject
line, but it does point towards..ahem…my point.

Perhaps I can make a slightly askew statement and say
that idea of supporting ones self through their art
can be tied (not solely but related to) two other
factors (again not the only factors): One (yes I like
to list), the generation of larger audiences for our
work, and Two, more and more diverse and more
personalized engagement with our audience.

First the second: people collect prints (copies of
paintings or photographs) often because they are
signed, because they know that the artist they admire,
that touches them, has touched, has added to the
print. So ….how can we….being all creative and
intelligent and quirk-handsome, how can we devise new
methods to make our work both universally available
and personalized? Perhaps there needs to be some type
of signing? Perhaps work can have additions, like
variants of the work (which we do already)? Perhaps
the work could be tied to the physical object the work
contains. Like much of my work is ficto-biography. So
could I create artifacts to compliment that work?

Secondly the first: of course, you say in a gurgling
mad voice, of course we need larger, more varied
audiences. Yes, but then what is being done to gather
those audiences? Most of us shoot for the Ars Elec or
the Siggraph or the Tate or whatever. But the
audiences there are largely ourselves. Poetry has the
same problem. But poetry does better then we, despite
it being doomed to small sections of bookstores, and
we with the entire web, and the skills to manipulate
said environment.

I suppose my call should fall to myself, but I am just
a displaced country boy who forgets the punch line at
fancy parties.

cheers, Jason Nelson

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