[-empyre-] The diffculty of creation and Audience

[G.H. Hovagimyan]

On May 7, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Patrick Lichty wrote:

> On the other hand, I like what Frieder Nake said to me in that "the  
> Work is not art until it is public", which I liked.


The notion of the public is very slippery especially when you are  
dealing with internet and new media.  For example in 2006 I did a  
series of video performances called rantapod that are video  
podcasts.  They were made to be downloaded onto an ipod or viewed on  
the web.  I took the trouble to list rantapod on the itunes listing  
for podcasts.  Recently I got a large HD screen and an Apple TV box.   
One of the categories on the apple TV box is podcasts. When I  
searched for rantapod my video podcasts came up on the screen.  What  
this means is that the network distribution of my work is changing.  
It also means that there is now a different way to distribute art.   
my stat counter for the rantapod site says that it's been visited by  
around 3000 people.  This statistic is meaningless to me. It neither  
encourages me to make the work nor does it stop me from making the  
work.  However, finding out that you can get rantapod via apple TV  
onto a home theater system is very interesting to me.  What it does  
is put my video in a media mixture that includes, NPR, movie rentals,  
youTube and the podcasting wannabes. That's an information landscape  
or as Regis Debray terms it a Media Mythos.

rantapod -- http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod

G.H. Hovagimyan
http://nujus.net/gh/
http://post.thing.net/blog/gh/