Re: [-empyre-] Intellectual property and the space of net art

[Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>]

On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 03:00  AM, someone wrote:

> The criticism of the conditions of the artist in the states is true 
> enough
> as far as it goes.  Certainly the net art space is a zone of action 
> wherein
> a kind of metacriticism viz a viz the mainstream art cultural 
> production can
> be imagined and performed.

indeed
I would contend that "the net art space" is
perhaps the *best* extant "zone of action" for
the development of such a critique
[or set of critiques]

>  The idea in art precedes and evades its commodification.

and I would contend that
the internetwork as a publishing media
assists in avoiding such a pitfall
for you no longer need to "own a press"
to get your ideas into the eyes and ears of
a broad spectrum of "others"

jeffs

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Jeffrey Sonstein
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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