"Because they have the function of collecting and preserving the
artworks, the art museums today often looks like historical
collections of media technologies of the previous decades. Thus one
may mistake a contemporary art museum for a museum of obsolete
technology. Today, while outside one finds LCD and PDA, data
projectors and DV cameras, inside a museum we may expect to find
slide projectors, 16 mm film equipment, 3/4-inch video decks."
- lev manovich
"we are living in a material world, and i am a material girl."
- cyndi lauper
"Before a local gallery will even consider displaying my net art
work, i first have to screen-capture some stills of my animated
website, print these digital stills out on a color printer, take
photographs of the color prints, develop the photographs as slides,
and send the slides to the gallery via snail mail."
- dj jazzy jeff and the artist formerly known as fresh prince
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In a message dated 8/2/2002 12:50:37 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> "Before a local gallery will even consider displaying my net art
> work, i first have to screen-capture some stills of my animated
> website, print these digital stills out on a color printer, take
> photographs of the color prints, develop the photographs as slides,
> and send the slides to the gallery via snail mail."
I can't afford slidification either, over my head.
Plus my monitor is sepia-terminal, glaucoma. I can barely see text, much
less a pitcher.
TGIF
Max
>I believe you are thinking of Huey Lewis.
That's true, but then i'm always thinking of Huey Lewis. There is a
perpetual sub-routine in my brain constantly trying to discover any
salient differences between the musics of Huey Lewis and Hall & Oats.
So far, no luck.
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> "Because they have the function of collecting and preserving the
> artworks, the art museums today often looks like historical
> collections of media technologies of the previous decades. Thus one
> may mistake a contemporary art museum for a museum of obsolete
> technology. Today, while outside one finds LCD and PDA, data
> projectors and DV cameras, inside a museum we may expect to find
> slide projectors, 16 mm film equipment, 3/4-inch video decks."
> - lev manovich
Mark Dion once pointed out that they should put a gigantic glass case
around New York's Museum of Natural History with a little tag next to it
reading "19th Century Natural History Museum". A great deal of the
exhibits are scientifically flawed or socially backwards (i.e., why are
native americans treated as wild animals?), but the quality of the
craftsmanship is amazing and the insight it provides into the history of
science is invaluable.
Until they recently decided to renovate and hopefully begin featuring
contemporary art again, a similar argument could have been made for the
MoMA - put a glass case around it and label it "Modernism".
> "we are living in a material world, and i am a material girl."
> - cyndi lauper
I believe you are thinking of Huey Lewis.
-Cf
[christopher eli fahey]
art: http://www.graphpaper.com
sci: http://www.askrom.com
biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com