Re: "The Paper Chase" panel discussion atPostmasters on Tuesday 9/17

Well, I signed up for one of those OpenMouse shows at FUN for Nov. 16, 2000,
because I wanted to get to NYC before the end of the millennium and show
G2K.

My original plan was to have a printer, internet, and a little spot to print
stuff and receive stuff over the web for printing, and call the thing "Works
on Paper." I think I had an egroup for it.

So, the paper was to be the material, but after getting to NYC I found out I
would only have access to a video projector (no sound) and a PC to project
on some big tvs, also no sound. Actually I think there was sound but my vhs
sound was so bad it was unusable.

The use of paper goes through most of my g2k junk since the early Lessons
One and Two, Contribution One, posters, and tickets (i.e. in SFMOMA82700).
I use paper photos a lot, and also have a "paper uniform" made of g2k
posters and tickets, attached in armor-style using clear packing tape.
Paper lives in airspace too, whereas I do not think bits and paquitos occur
in air–they are just as good in a vacuum; when the wind blows it doesn't
make your screen rustle.

For example, in that same trip to NYC (I think Nov. 14-18, 2000) I threw a
very large handful of tickets in the SoHo Guggenheim's upper room which was
showing Warhol's "Last Supper" sketches. I escaped using my super-cool
demeanor, and left a large handful of tickets in a bowl of SoHoGugg yoyos in
the gift shop. Also tickets at the meeting of the NY New Media Association
meeting, with a panel including Ippolito and Max Anderson, photo at
www.geocities.com/genius-2000/nynmanm.JPG.

Also at that url is a photo I took in Adrian Piper's then-running piece
about the King video and beatings; there was kleenex provided in the piece
(a small one-person room with the video looped and "What's Going On" for
audio, photo of the acquitted opposite) so I folded up my used kleenexes in
a g2k poster for archival. The Piper exhibit (at the New Museum) also had
these books you could write in, so I wrote some and put a couple of Avery
5160 g2k stickers in them.

Paper is not basic and silly, it's in fact a very wild untamed element of
the web–cheap, massively wasted, a lugubrious alter ego of the broadband
updownload pipeline. Anti-glam. "Works on Paper."

There are some aspects of network art that seem to forget the mystery of
lowly paper. And back in the printing-press days, and earlier, paper WAS
the net; it was the routers and database and packet. At least one can say
paper was the storage medium and transport system for centuries, along with
canvas etc.–but paper was the fast/cheap internetty medium.

There are some things that paper still does the best. Not what it used to
be though. Paper can concretize space in a way that digital media cannot.
I think the whole thing is interesting, like the highly average underbelly
of digital infoflow. Plus the historical moment of paper is right now a
very useful countervail to superhighway/broadband hysteria.

Sweet paper how do I love thee.

This one is also papery: www.geocities.com/genius-2000/fahey.JPG

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>From: Lee Wells <[email protected]>
>To: Max Herman <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
><[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "The Paper Chase" panel discussion atPostmasters
>on Tuesday 9/17
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:18:09 -0400
>
>Max
>I was planning on going.
>Can you please elaborate on what you are talking about.
>Cheers
>Lee
>
>on 9/16/02 12:28 PM, Max Herman at [email protected] wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to have you all discuss, or someone meat-there in my
>behalf, my
> > show "works on paper" of 11/16/00 at the FUN gallery, which was fried
> > because there was no internet connection or printer or nothin. But
>still it
> > was a valid coulda/woulda/shoulda.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Magda <[email protected]>
> >> Reply-To: Magda <[email protected]>
> >> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: "The Paper Chase" panel discussion at Postmasters
>on
> >> Tuesday 9/17
> >> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:56:36 -0400
> >>
> >>
> >> The Paper Chase:
> >> Why do Many of Today's Leading Media Artists and Curators Choose to
>Present
> >> Works on Paper?
> >> Postmasters Gallery
> >> Tuesday, September 17
> >> 7pm
> >> 459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue) New York, NY 10011
> >> Telephone 212 727 3323
> >>
> >> When one thinks of media art – video or net.art, for example – paper
> >> seems
> >> unrelated or even irrelevant. Yet media curators and artists often
>choose
> >> to present works on paper (in the forms of prints, drawings, and
> >> photography, for example) for aesthetic, archival, or financial
>reasons.
> >> To
> >> some, this might seem ironic or paradoxical: why take "one step
>forward,
> >> two
> >> steps back" in terms of choice of medium? Is there a conceptual choice
> >> involved when a media artist or curator decides to use paper? Or are
>the
> >> decisions merely practical? Our panel will discuss these issues by
> >> presenting specific examples from various exhibitions and projects.
> >>
> >> Edward Earle, curator, International Center for Photography
> >>
> >> Mark Tribe, founder, Rhizome
> >>
> >> ChanSchatz, artist duo and digital printmakers and Columbia University
> >> School of the Arts professors
> >>
> >> Magda Sawon, owner and director (with Tamas Banovich) of Postmasters
> >> Gallery
> >>
> >> moderator and organizer: Reena Jana, editor, Art on Paper
> >> + If the reader will keep me company I shall be glad.
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