[NetBehaviour] The Art of the Hunt

[James Morris]

On 30/04/13 Dyske Suematsu <dyske at dyske.com> wrote:
>Thank you, Michael; You inspired me to get more involved.


I found your paper on the mystery of why some people use
twitter and why others don't, quite enlightening.

http://dyske.com/paper/1020

I'm tempted to ask about parochial vs global or blinkered
vs open-minded, but I don't really expect the two forms to be biased in
one way or the other - and both biases have their problems anyway.

james


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>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Michael Szpakowski
><szpako at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> & how nice it is to have you posting here on Netbehaviour, Dyske!
>> warmest
>> michael
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>>  *From:* netbehaviour <netbehaviour at furtherfield.org>
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>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:59 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] The Art of the Hunt
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>>  Thanks Dyske,
>>
>> "I think this article tells us what purpose art world is actually
>> serving. There is a reason for every supply and demand."
>>
>> Very interesting -- especially when there is so much going elsewhere
>> at the edge of art etc...
>>
>> marc
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/the-art-of-the-hunt.html
>>
>>  I thought this was an interesting article because it spells out
>> something that the art world deliberately obfuscates in order to
>> protect the prestige of everyone involved (not just collectors, but
>> artists, galleries, museums, donors, etc..). I think this article
>> tells us what purpose art world is actually serving. There is a
>> reason for every supply and demand.
>>
>>  Another example of deliberate obfuscation is rolling papers. They
>> pretend as though they are for rolling cigarettes but in reality
>> people buy them to roll marijuana. The purpose of Q-tips is
>> obfuscated too. We all buy them to clean our ear canals but the
>> company pretends as though we never do (presumably to avoid law
>> suits).
>>
>>  The art world exists to exalt the social statuses of egotistical
>> men, and the artists are playing dumb, in denial, or truly ignorant
>> of the purpose they are serving.
>>
>>  This is what I like about digital/net art. It's very bad at serving
>> this purpose.
>>
>>  Dyske from NYC
>> http://dyske.com
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