Re: [-empyre-] galleries & establishments

valerie <valerie@mobilegaze.com> · Sat Jul 6 12:34:01 2002

Hi Chris -
Hi everyone...
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 09:56  PM, valerie wrote:

However - I still ask myself questions about publics - I mean - is
there a public for Web art that goes beyond the community involved in
it already?

I think that there is a public beyond those involved with it now... 
there has to be... one of the things that I find being located in a 
small town on the east coast of Canada (Wolfville, NS) is that my 
main exposure to net.art is via my DSL connection... so I don't have 
many chances to see the work presented in a gallery context. When I 
do get out I find the context and interaction provided by the artist 
or curator in person can completely change my interpretation of the 
work, so when I go back and look at it again at home it is something 
new and something more.

Yes - this gets back to my point that we are really no longer bound 
by geographies when it comes to net.art. And I have lived the similar 
experience of discovering so much about works when in person. I'm 
also interested in having those personal elements (interviews, 
conversations, diaries etc.) developed w/in the Web space.

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