Re: [-empyre-] Re: empyre digest, Vol 1 #172 -

[valerie <valerie@mobilegaze.com>]

Hi Helen -

> My PS for July 5: I think there are other issues that should be taken into
> account in this discussion -- funding, and (in the US) the drift of limited
> funding to larger established organizations, the "corporatization" pressure
> put on not-for-profits -- and the shift on the Internet from a more open,
> innovation-encouraging environment, to more control. Large institutions,
> corporatization of smaller ones, control, all make me feel that anyone
> interested in the development of the Internet and its potential as an
> artistic context should think hard and tread carefully ..

Yes, it is important to be transparent when discussing budgets and 
financial opportunities. In Canada, few artists had (have) 
aspirations to making oodles of money as Internet artists. So, many 
of the people attracted to Web art have been people from the arts 
community (as opposed to programming). But this is changing, and we 
are seeing programming / art communities coming closer. However, and 
I had this conversation w/ Igor Stromajer, in Canada we have A LOT of 
space to fill, with hundreds of artist-run centers in a relatively 
small national art community. Also, artists are paid to show their 
work and the government is the main sponsor. So, there is not a great 
urgency to make net.art as a) it has few venues to be shown b) you 
get paid a lot less to show a net.art piece than an installation as 
it is often presented in group shows.


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