The point of the comments above is that XYZ is a reductionist model, based on the comparison of a limited number of characteristics, leaving out everything else. It's Greenberg-esque: it disallows the possibility of personalized readings, and it strips the work of any hint of intertextuality.

The part of your post that bothered me was where you talked about ShiftSpace. This is a great project. The trend of Web 2.0 has been to wrest order from the chaos of the early web; ShiftSpace is a project that intends to re-inject this spirit of anarchy. For example, the comment criticizing your writing ("how long has your criticism sucked") was removed from this page; ShiftSpace would allow this comment to remain on the page for other users to see. It could be read as a critique of the increasingly moderated Wikipedia, and it's attempt at 'authoritativeness'; it's infused with nostalgia for the early web when people produced their own messy pages instead of buying into the myspace prefab system; it's a classic example of a 'not just art' project.

The reason your criticism prompted me to write was that it was being leveled at projects that aren't even finished yet. What is the role of art criticism before a project has been completed? It's an insidious intervention into the space between thought and action, where every artist encounters self-doubt.
- anonymous 6-25-2007 3:28 am





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