does it have anything to do with collaborations? the 5 XYZ projects you called out are all collaborations and i just haven't seen it brought up anywhere. more than that, media art is rife with collaborative work (often it's a cover for one person getting someone else to do technical stuff). while i'm actually a fan of people working together, it seems underacknowledged so far and i wonder if the collaborative process of new media privileges talking a project through over actually doing stuff?
a related thing -- it'd be interesting to look at the educations of the grant recipients to see how many of them have completed graduate study in some media arts discipline. from my limited perspective, these grad schools encourages artists to propose projects before making them, to think them through to their conclusions, to research precedents and novelty, etc. etc. maybe a symptom is the overdetermined Z
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a related thing -- it'd be interesting to look at the educations of the grant recipients to see how many of them have completed graduate study in some media arts discipline. from my limited perspective, these grad schools encourages artists to propose projects before making them, to think them through to their conclusions, to research precedents and novelty, etc. etc. maybe a symptom is the overdetermined Z
- spd 6-26-2007 9:50 pm