'run right in their arms little boy!'
>Demographics are relevant in that they could open up the discussion to
>other conceptual schemes and frameworks from other standpoints. It may
>reveal not only shared interests, but also shared assumptions and
>predjudices about the *meanings* and *practices* and *escapades*
>cybercultureartspace (Cyberkulturekunstraum?) not only the *references* and
>heaps of quotations about it.
true, 'demographics' (I know that to some gender blenders that's only duh
he 'and/or' she issue) is part of meta content. When available information
is abundant, in order to navigate, select, connect, _intervene_ meta
content is vital. Different mappings make different schemes visible,
opening different readings.
Of course there's the headlong alternative -- and quite successful in loud
environments it is.
Navigating/intervening institutional spaces/images/articulations seems less
and less exciting -- as is their critique. There's other parties to bond
with. Disintermediation is no wired fantasy. But it takes a clear idea of
an audience, an interest (group), however small it might be, down to a
single recipient. Per artist, per project, per work, per issue. The
_appreciation_ of an audience is not very often negotiated, while i think
it to be of prime importance. All kinds of communities/events desire
expression and articulation and mediation and agency of their interests.
The issue of authorship (so important on the institutional agenda) is less
urgent with collaborative efforts, and in information exchange (remember
Bali). With my own work all involved are equally credited (it will take a
while before the read/write environment understands group dynamics, but
that's another story). This is definitely post-studio. And less and less
artefactual. For my upcoming project the former IXDocumenta pavillions, now
an art center situated in a new Dutch polder, at the edge of a new city
that serves as an Amsterdam suburb, will be professionally camouflaged by
the Dutch military. It's the closing of institutional spaces, rendering it
to the military/nature, that remains.
>If the postings are
>being generated by only a minute sector, then this "forum" is contractive
>rather than expansive.
This reminds me of vitruvius' post, enjoying 'elites', and echos in my idea
of concentrated, rather than contracted, micro audiences, markets, per
issue, per information exchange.
>A word that keeps coming to my mind is intervention, not interactivity.
these micro constituencies intervene
Jouke Kleerebezem _ciw_ Amsterdam
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jouke/xdnotes
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