"My sense is Nasty Nets 'members' are scared to talk among themselves too much about what's happening on the site lest the magic bubble pop"--dark joke

re: "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"

I wonder if the hostility to criticism (besides mine being wrong) comes from an art school approach vs a media arts approach to teaching. The former is very tough, or it used to be. A painter/installation artist at one NY school made his students do a stand up comedy routine before the rest of the class as part of their training, to help get them over the fact that people are cruel and don't always like work. (This was denounced and the school may have put a stop to it.) Yale MFA students famously ripped each other new ones about their work (from the people I know that went there in the 80s-90s). I remember a teacher saying to me in crit "I think you were completely chickenshit not to use color in this piece." (He was right.)
- tom moody 6-26-2007 11:06 pm





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