Re: Re: Re: RHIZOME_RARE: Los Angeles Center ForDigital Art: Open Call

yes, these pay to play gigs are often simply scams. they exist throughout
the arts. there's no end of offers to pay to publish your poetry or have
your visual art in shows or whatever or pay to enter some idiotic
competition. i suggest that unless you have personal knowledge of the nature
of the event and thereby know that it is not a scam, don't publish it to
Rare. It only makes it look on the up-and-up, having made it through some
sort of vetting process. Also, to artists, it's important where you
publish/show/whatever. Publish/show/whatever with those whom you see
eye-to-eye with, figuratively or literally. The frame says a lot about the
work, forms a large part of the context of the work which is significant in
shaping the interpretable meanings of the work. Don't publish simply to
publish but think about the statement of solidarity and shared purpose or
approach implicit in the act of publishing with someone/something else, and
make that statement significant.

ja