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

[Renate Ferro]

In response to Verena's post...

I'm here to celebrate an alternative system where not only art
works/projects/concepts on the net  are an alternative to the global
museum/gallery economy, but that also the potential networks of
communities using the internet as a way to organize and implement
artistic/political/social change have become an integral part of this
alternative.  I'm thinking of the work of our recent guest Ricardo
Dominguez and The Electronic Disturbance Theater and of then of course I
see empyre as a part of this as well... a site which facilitates 
discussion and critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary
issues, practices and events in networked media. In my own teaching I feel
the imperative to teach university art students who come in as first year
students (most of whom want to be famous painters)  that there is an
alternative with rich potential for their own artistic practice.

Renate

> 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
>

Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fine Arts, Inter-media
Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853

Website:  http://www.renateferro.net
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>

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