[NetBehaviour] DIWO & The Dark Mountain Update - Co-Curating.

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Hey Marc, the F-Crew, DIWO/Dark Mountaineers, Netbehaviourists, and the rest of yooz!

I saw it live, on-line! 

I feel educated, is that the right word? Well, perhaps not but something close to it. Yeah, yeah yeah. I know I promised to be there on the day, but other things happened stopping me getting there. And thanks for coping with my (probably sounding neurotic) phone call early on Friday morning, when you were all busy setting things up at HTTP. I could hear a lot of shuffling and moving things about in the background as we talked.

Decided to go to the site that you mentioned as an alternative, net-art.org and became a relaxed lurker, watching it all unfold in real-time with some friends who were quite impressed by the whole thing. 

Seeing you all at the space was great. And a shout goes out to James Morris, who's work I have only just started to look at since joining the list. To be honest, I have only just begun to get my head around net art, which from what I can understand in recent years has suffered a kind of slump. But all of a sudden IT seems to be reworking itself back into art culture with a very effective bang. Interesting stuff. I mean, looking around at other platforms out there, you of thought differently - but it's alive and real. I have been looking at many other people's work on here and am loving it. A lot of my peer students are getting into net art at the moment, it's a revelation, so much of it out there. It's s shame, but my lecturers are pretty lame on all this stuff, banal and traditional in fact, but looking outside of the college is the only way out of the bullshit we are being fed. Oh well.

Before, you may remember I said on the list that I was sceptical about whether it would work at all with so many people taking part in the co-curation thiingy. Very happy to be proved wrong. All my recent experiences on net behaviour, the diwo thing, the Dark Mountain project, has played a major part in twisting my paradigms something rotten. It hurt my mind (still hurts, but not so much now) trying to figure it all out. 

I have never seen this type of thing before, and seeing it in action was a learning curve for me. Your group and many other artists on Netbehaviour, have proved by example that it works. Actually, I almost can't believe it happened. 

Moving on, it was enjoyable watching everyone discuss the various ways in displaying the contributions and I just want to say congratulations to everyone. I genuinely want to say well done - without seeming like a pratt at the same time. Then perhaps this is part of what this thing is all about, being able as what I think Karen said a little while back on the list, daring to be vulnerable.

That's it, I'm off! Just wanted to say some words and they are said :-)

Stuart






>------- Original Message Follows -------
>From: "marc garrett" <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>
>To: <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
>Subject: [NetBehaviour] DIWO & The Dark Mountain Update - Co-Curating.
>Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:17:29 +0000
>
>DIWO & The Dark Mountain Update - Co-Curating.
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>A big THANKS to all who took part, either by coming along to the space 
>on Friday - or visited the live stream on-line, sharing the experience 
>of co-curating. It was quite a busy day for all involved.
>
>There was about 12 of us at the space physically, as well as between 3 
>to 10 live visitors in the live steam 'room' itself - mainly between 6-9.
>
>There were also others, and they were observing the process - outside of 
>these 2 frameworks.
>
>Pim Peterse from http://net-art.org embedded the player for 
>net-art.org's own community to view - so the audience together with 
>collaborators/participants was more i total but not sure. So, another 
>big THANKS to Pim :-)
> 
>We have compiled all the suggestions from the co-curation day and have 
>already started writing it all up. Not finished yet though, expect it 
>either later today or tomorrow - we are quite tired at the moment.
>
>Any other suggestions that have arrived afterwards or will arrive, will 
>be considered but to be honest, we've only got till Wednesday to have 
>everything up.
>
>Those with late co-curation suggestions will have to take on the fact 
>that we really intended to have all suggestions and ideas ready by 
>Friday - the co-curation day. This is because the opening of the 
>exhibition is this Wednesday. There has to be a cut-off point so that we 
>can realistically get things done in time...
>
>Here are the dates - a reminder:
>
>Private View: 7-9pm Full Moon, Wednesday 2nd December '09
>Gallery Open: 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, 4th-12th December '09
>http://www.http.uk.net/
>
>Wishing all well.
>
>marc
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