[-empyre-] Critical Dromology - and terror, capital

[Verena Conley]

Hi all,
I agree with Tim.

What is the role of the artistic network? Can we think it independently of
money as Deleuze, etc. wanted it? Benjamin Buchloh and Glenn D. Lowry
(director, MoMa) duked it out here last year about whether there could be
"subversive" or politicized art in today's economy.

Network art could also explore how "global" this crisis is? Some people are
affected much more than others. Can art, especially networked art, help? I
am very curious.
Verena

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Timothy Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> >Hello, Navjotika and Jordan,
>
> Thanks for posing such interesting questions this week.  I'd like to
> follow up by posing a rather simple question for general discussion.
> What is the role of the network, especially the artistic network, in
> the face of the catastrophic?  This seems to be an especially crucial
> issue today in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of the global
> economic network.   My friends in China, for instance, tell me that
> the economics sustaining that  vibrant art scene has suddenly become
> flat, as we read of failed art auctions and slow artistic sales on an
> international scale.  What lessons might we learn from this,
> particularly of a more interventionist, political nature?
>
> It was on the other side of a similar catastrophe in the wake of the
> Japanese depression and Western economic slowdown in the late 80s
> that interactive and internet art took up the mantle of activist
> interventions in stale networks.   At that time the net seemed to
> promise an alternative option to the stultifying conditions and
> oppressive structures of the gallery system while providing energized
> artists with new tools for rethinking  social networking itself.
>
> While I anticipate a rise in activist media projects in reaction to
> tired  responses to the global catastrophe, I'm wondering whether our
> internal experience with mapping and networking might not lead the
> new media community in other directions.
>
> Any soft-skinned thoughts?
>
> Tim
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murray
> Director, Society for the Humanities
> http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
> Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library
> http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu
> Professor of Comparative Literature and English
> A. D. White House
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853
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