AMMI.org, Guggenheim.org, MOMA.org and Whitney.org were well represented
by illustrious figures and moderated by Unifiedfield.com. Actually, it
was the (e) fusion: art + the alley connect panel series on Museums in
the New Millennium. NYNMA and Thundergulch, in association with Location
One, brought together the Whitney's Maxwell Anderson, the American Museum
of the Moving Image's Carl Goodman, the Guggenheim's Jon Ippolito and the
Museum of Modern Art's Astrida Valigorsky to discuss art, installations
and the future of all these heady topics on Thursday night. Standing in
the spacious, cool, white, loft gallery of Location One, Unified Field's
Eli Kuslansky moderated the witty, intellectual discussion. In response
to questions, Ippolito stated that he would buy art on a CD, citing
Jeremy Blake's works (on DVD) as an example. There was discussion about
how the Internet has changed art and the way people view it - from public
art-public space (ex. the Pyramids) and art in churches to capitalism's
push to make art available to the general public. Finally, we're now at
the point where the Internet has made it possible to view art globally.
This is one medium where artists have been experimenting since the
beginning. Video and television artists came to the Internet much later,
but artists have been creating and experimenting with art on the Internet
since its very early days. A final question was posed: "How do you
collect art on the Internet?" While the question hung in the air, I
thought: bookmarks. Or if each "piece" has its own domain, you could buy
the domain name and the entire site. Hmmm. A whole new meaning for "ghost
sites."
A chronicle of the people and events in technology, internet and media since 1997, mixed in with snapshots of musings and observations.
