RE: [-empyre-] The Museum of the Essential and Beyond That

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Hi Regina,

I admire your work on http://arteonline.arq.br , Regina; it is a vast site
with some fine work from around the world, yet with emphasis on work from
South America and crossover work between South America and elsewhere. It is
unique, and a promising achievement. I also enjoy the architecture of the
space you have created. It is a multi-faceted space peopled with your
personality and concerns, yet shows the work you publish there with
attention and care not to dominate the work via the arteonline interface.

I also enjoyed your further work concerning Paris Connection, which we
worked on together so hard last year with Jorge, aLe, Ana Maria, Helen
Thorington, Roberto Simanowski, Nancy Paterson and many from France. That
was our attempt together to redefine critical projects concering net.art in
examining the work of Clauss, Birgé, Durieu, Schmitt, Lamarque, and
servolvalve. We were all in constant communication on that project for
several months, and I look back on it with pleasure and hope that it not
only makes the work of the French guys better known but that it sets a
standard for critical examination of net.art that is observed and surpassed
in the future.

ja