the end of Art Dirt

I'm sorry to announce that Art Dirt is no longer streaming from Pseudo
studios. The heads of Pseudo decided it wasn't commercial enough to
continue support. In a rather aggressive move they have also removed the
Art Dirt archives from the web. This is probably all to the good. The
people at Pseudo admit they know nothing about art and are more
interested in mainstream media. I have kept copies of the audio programs
and some of the video programs of Art Dirt. I assume at some future
point they will be of historical interest. Galinsky who is the senior
producer for Pseudo's performance channel (channelp.com) has said that
this is just a hiatus for Art Dirt and perhaps they will bring back the
program. I seriously doubt it.

I would like to thank everyone who has graciously been a guest on Art
Dirt and apologize to those who we didn't get around to having on the
show. We've had quite an interesting time for the past three years.

The best part of Art Dirt was the social aspect of meeting people in a
forum setting. This functioned in a similar manner to the idea of
"social sculpture" that Joseph Beuys had put forth in many of his
"Aktions." Indeed I view Art Dirt as a collaboration between Robbin
Murphy, Adrianne Wortzel, me and all the people who were our guests.
You cannot put a price tag on that type of energy. Sadly that is the
problem. If you would like to comment on the end of Art Dirt you can
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