Thanks for not changing the subject, which I think at least one other was doing ("How long has your criticism sucked? Huh? Huh?")

When I first got the Rhizome list my plan was to assign Xs, Ys, and Zs to all 11 projects, since that how it initially hit me.

Gradually I winnowed it down to groups where it applied, sort of applied and didn't apply.

A Flash blob of interactive Jello--not XYZ. A more thought-provoking example of something not XYZ: eteam plans to save everything from Second Life trashcan(s) for a year.

OK there's probably a Y--some program or routine to scoop and save what's normally jettisoned. There's an X--all the trash. But what's the Z? We don't know, the project is open ended. And it doesn't help others--there's probably lots of skanky pR0n in that trash, and confessional stuff meant to be deleted. This doesn't make it good or art, just non-XYZ. Inductive as opposed to deductive?

I was prepared with answers for 1-11, but no one asked. Which is OK, I really only wanted to do a handful to make the point.


- tom moody 6-24-2007 10:35 pm





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