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Subject: Re: <nettime> media, art, economy? From: { brad brace } <bbrace@wco.com> Date: 10 Apr 1998 05:58:08 +0200 * * * * * Sender: owner-nettime-l@basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk Questions: Can Art be de-institutionalized? Can Net-Art be de-institutionalized -- freed from the cult of the expert? Eyebeam: An elite diligently elaborating its own self-protecting etiquette... This is an age of great conformity. The citizens are so completely locked inside their boxes of expertise that they are effectively excluded from open public debate. We have disguised this truth by redefining individualism as an agreeable devotion to style and personal emotions. We project ourselves, as if in a romantic dream, against a backdrop of martyred existential outsiders... The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project <<< > episodic ftp://ftp.wco.com/users/bbrace < > eccentric ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace < > pointless ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace < > hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace < > imagery online ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace < Usenet-news: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr/ a.b.p.fine-art.misc Mailing-list: listserv@netcom.com / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html { brad brace } <<<< bbrace@netcom.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl