[-empyre-] networked_art

[Anna Munster]

 I think you are right in saying:
<There have been several books published that try to present the field but invariably wind up being a list of the authors friends and acquaintances.>
but that's also true of most anthologies and that is due to the nature of book publishing which is long, arduous and relies – on the part of the editors of the anthology – a lot of voluntary labour, cajoling and wheedling our of people. Who else to do this to that one's friends!!

But that also raises the question about how to publish in a networked age. It's clearly not the end of the book - statistically people read more books now than they ever did. But I do think we may have come to an impasse with the printed book publishing model for critical and reflective work, that is, outside a niche market. I'm all for niche markets (and for printed books as well) but as an author I find it increasingly frustrating to print when it can take anything up to 5 years to get a chapter to the public (anthologies take the longest time) and about 3 years to get a book out. In part, that's why Networked appealed to me - it had a fast turn around time for a compilation and the idea of adding chapters on the go is also very interesting.

As for your other question
< There is however a question of what the word networked means?>

I could write a book/post on that! But maybe I'll leave that to some others first. Jo and Helen, esp. in terms of your deep c'tment to 'networked performance', what would you say the main differences are between 'network' and 'networked'? In other words, why choose to call the project 'Networked'? I'll ask Eduardo the same question when I introduce him next time round.