all of the proposals seem strongly directed toward their proposed conclusion. i have trouble seeing how a secondlife trash can as being altogether more open-ended than some meta-layer over webpages. nevertheless...
this is a great discussion to be having -- who wouldn't admit that the many of the projects seem bloodless and stiff, and why is that? are more artists than before approaching their work with an XYZ mindset? are we realizing that proposal-based competitions value the conclusion-determined process over the "experimental" (in the spirit of how tm has been referring to experiments)? why is that (does it have anything to do with the voting process) and how could we change it? or are institutions producing the need for XYZ work, a demand that artists are fulfilling? you've already broached this subject before with VVORK, and i wonder how other media curating blogs like wmmna or boingboing contribute to the demand?
i have to come clean, i had typed out my own "you're doing XYZ criticism where Y is to pin XYZ on a project (X) and Z are the laughs" response, but i didn't post it because i realized that there is something awry about the projects. or maybe it's not solely the projects, but the way their framed in this proposal/competition process. similarly, i think the way VVORK frames the work it blogs about makes me see that work as a one-liner (XYZ). so maybe it's coming from 2 directions -- the work and the institutions supporting the work, each attracting eachother and drifting to somewhere we can only call XYZ for now. i apologize if this is all obvious, it may be that i'm only catching up here
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this is a great discussion to be having -- who wouldn't admit that the many of the projects seem bloodless and stiff, and why is that? are more artists than before approaching their work with an XYZ mindset? are we realizing that proposal-based competitions value the conclusion-determined process over the "experimental" (in the spirit of how tm has been referring to experiments)? why is that (does it have anything to do with the voting process) and how could we change it? or are institutions producing the need for XYZ work, a demand that artists are fulfilling? you've already broached this subject before with VVORK, and i wonder how other media curating blogs like wmmna or boingboing contribute to the demand?
i have to come clean, i had typed out my own "you're doing XYZ criticism where Y is to pin XYZ on a project (X) and Z are the laughs" response, but i didn't post it because i realized that there is something awry about the projects. or maybe it's not solely the projects, but the way their framed in this proposal/competition process. similarly, i think the way VVORK frames the work it blogs about makes me see that work as a one-liner (XYZ). so maybe it's coming from 2 directions -- the work and the institutions supporting the work, each attracting eachother and drifting to somewhere we can only call XYZ for now. i apologize if this is all obvious, it may be that i'm only catching up here
- spd 6-26-2007 12:05 am