final issue of theremediproject.com

The last issue of The Remedi Project is now online at www.theremediproject.com .

I have admired that publication since its inception.

Some of what I like about it:

Rather than featuring the work of 999999999999999999 artists, each issue features 4-6 works. I
cannot stand to see editors reduce the hard work of artists to anonymity and invisibility amidst
9999999999999 other works. In some pubs, I know that is not the intent of the editors. But it is
the result, nonetheless. Just too much for the audience to be able to genuinely appreciate the
individual work. It may serve the editors. But it really doesn't serve the artist or the
audience. Unless there are a variety of interfaces into the work, like I note Rhizome is
attempting with the art base. That has some poetential.

There are interviews done with the artists in The Remedi Project.

The interface is competant and knowlegeable.

He says at the outset "no multitasking".

He was one of the first to go with a fullscreen interface.

When the viewer launches a work, the remedi Flash closes to give the work all the juice.

On a different but related topic, I object when venues that do not pay demand exclusivity of
publication. They should be worried about whether they provide suitable context for the work,
and interviews of the artists, and other such things that contexualize the work in an
interesting way, not whether they can hog-tie the artist into exclusivity without paying them.

If they do as good a job as Josh Ulm did with The Remedi Project, then people will flock to
their publication regardless of wherever else it is published. The most hits I ever got in a
month long period on my site was when my work was published in The Remedi Project. And he didn't
demand exclusivity.

I respect Josh's work as an editor and curator for these reasons. And I think his work has a lot
to teach others.

I am sorry to see the end of The Remedi Project. But, while that's true, I also recognize that
such projects often have such a life-span because they need to be fueled by curatorial energy,
and 5 years of it is pretty good for one project. Time for Josh to move on, apparently.

All the very best to him, for he has curated one of the very best projects on the Web for five
years. He has respected the work of the artists and contextualized their work in a useful and
high energy way rather than hog tying them or burying them under 9999999999999 others to the
greater glory of the triumphant editors standing atop the heap.

And The Remedi Project has been a venue that has constantly published good web.art; he has
advanced the art in that sense, also. Josh earned the name of his project. It has been a remedy
in the example it sets concerning curation on the Web.

ja
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