new sources/models of funding, jerkholes

All,
(Note: jerkholes is a meaningless addition, because the person behind me dared me to. and with me saying this, I have now lost the dare, and must consume a nasty thing)

FUNDING MODELS: The trick is this. There is the old, very old argument about funding the arts, from public money or private money. There is the very old argument about buying and selling art, making art to sell, becoming famous either pre or post death and entering the stream of cash from the collectors market. There is the we dont want to be corrupted, dont want to sell out very old argument. These arguments apply across nearly all art forms. And sure there are slight differences, but basically the same premise for each area of artistic whatnots. And this means we will always have to juggle the "dont sell out" versus "like to travel and have car" arguments when being an artist. THE PROBLEM NOW IS REALLY MOST OF US DONT HAVE THE CHOICE. (not yelling just caping)

A QUOTABLE THING: We say dont sell out because that is the only option really. I want to choose to sell all my work to starbucks website and have the rest of you call me names, while I have the cash to pay for grants to fund the people that call me names.

KOREA and ROOMS and SOMETHING LIKE MYSPACE: I just read an article about the myspace like site (name eludes me this morning) where nearly 20 percent of Korean youth are buying web pages that have rooms in them, and then buying furniture to fill those rooms. And there are an increasingly large number of these virtual acquisitions. So, there seems to be growing examples of people paying real cash for digital spaces, for what amounts to ideas on the web. This isn't new to our net art crowd, but does provide even more evidence of the possibility of net art becoming something with cash swirling about it.

yes yes yes…cash is bad, heros are false, sold out and all that….but honestly that argument is tired, so sleepy, make what you want….and if someone wants to fund it or buy it or pay to use it….do or dont let them…..

BUT>>>>we all want that chance….that chance to make a living, to gain a large audience, to pay others to help us with the hard codes and the server space….

SO>>>>AGAIN>>>>where do we look? DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYONE AT GOOGLE or AMAZON or any of the NET GIANTS>>>> and if so…can you ask them for contacts…so we can at least ask….

I want to move to Kansas and buy an abandoned high school and live there…and I need some small cash to do that…so hurry please…

Jason Nelson







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