Re: [-empyre-] economics of the art system: the example of documen ta

[Millie Niss <men2@columbia.edu>]

Christina,

It's good that there were so many good people involved who did their 
best, and of course those people deserve all the credit they can get.  
What I don't understand is where these situations come from when 
virtually all the actual artists that I have run into seem to be 
ethical, hard-working, and doing legitimate work.  Who gives these 
institutions so much money and power and where do they find their 
personnel?  They clearly aren't drawing from the same new media 
community that you and I and the rest of the list belong to, where 
people help each other and do good work...

P.S. Sorry for the multiple copies of my message. My email is broken in 
three different ways (literally) and I was using my cell phone which has 
a tendency to want to send the message before I have finished composing 
it.  I had hoped that I stopped it in time, but apparently the "cancel" 
commands did not work.