Arg that's an infuriating article. The Rachel Greene quote is giving me hives. Will follow your Siegelaub links soon, because I think it is very interesting that you invoke him in this context. Art and product and value are always in contested relationships, but in the land where opensource ideology holds the avante garde position, and weirdo hobbyists create sites of wonder and beauty (like rathergood.com, or Fensler's GI JOes,or Strong Bad's games, or the unintentional pathos of the lightning bolt video clip*) what role is there for self-defined, capital N-A Net Art? Luckily, as you note, we are shedding the term.
Self-defined Net Art projects have mostly always bored me to tears...spare me the long-loading, find-the-place-to-click-me narratives packed with theoretically correct reference to the body or lack thereof. feh. Jodi.org still stands out to this day as a sincerley engaging art project with some puzzlement, humour and life to it. It makes good sense to draw connections (merely inferred above) between Jodi and Cory Arcangel (&Beige, etc).
* sorry for the lack of links, folks. If you ain't already seen this stuff you can find it all fast and easy on this great search engine called Google.
|
Self-defined Net Art projects have mostly always bored me to tears...spare me the long-loading, find-the-place-to-click-me narratives packed with theoretically correct reference to the body or lack thereof. feh. Jodi.org still stands out to this day as a sincerley engaging art project with some puzzlement, humour and life to it. It makes good sense to draw connections (merely inferred above) between Jodi and Cory Arcangel (&Beige, etc).
* sorry for the lack of links, folks. If you ain't already seen this stuff you can find it all fast and easy on this great search engine called Google.
- sally mckay 4-03-2004 10:02 am