Gee, thanks. And I’m really only teasing Tom; we can’t avoid these sorts of contradictions, and in fact they’re the source of the tensions that actually force us to figure something out.
Visa vi the web, I suppose there’s quite a gap between artists working in “old fashioned” media and those working in digital media that are at home here. There’s a big difference between having your work online or having pictures of it online. Talking about slides and such reminds me of how much of my experience (especially my introductory experience) with art has been through reproductions; I’ve never really seen many of my favorite paintings. Being in NY and looking at stuff like Minimalism (which had a certain resistance to reproduction) served as a sort of “reality therapy.” Time and distance change art, though I don’t think they disable it. Our experience of an ancient carving in a museum is certainly different than the original audience’s, but we are still engaged. The web is changing our experience of time and distance, and who can guess at all the possibilities in that?

- alex 6-24-2004 11:40 pm





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