[NetBehaviour] An interview with Geert Lovink

Wed Sep 30 23:18:38 CEST 2015

I think basically we all need to meet up more often!
On 30 Sep 2015 22:11, "Annie Abrahams" <bram.org at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi Randall,
>
> I am not necesarrily asking for more, better media, for more livelyness, I
> am not sure I want more ...
> I would like a content re-de-placement, more of the processes going on
> (artistic and organisational) and les about results and "look what I have
> done" I would like that there would be more slowness, more attention, more
> time for open reflexion on what has been done, less representation and for
> now i see that still more in the mailinglist than on the social media. I
> think we should reinvent reinvest mailinglists! Netbehaviour first of all.
>
> see you
> Annie
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Randall Packer <rpacker at zakros.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I’m not sure where to set into this thread, which has become
>> multi-threaded in all sorts of interesting directions.
>>
>> Regarding Geert: without going into a complete analysis, it’s not clear
>> to me that he is aware of the many museums in the US and the around the
>> world that are employing social media and what is called “user-generated
>> content” in all sorts of compelling ways that invite engagement and social
>> change. I have taught courses in the Johns Hopkins University Museum
>> Studies program where the students are deeply involved with museum-based
>> social and “visitor engagement,” to use another museum term. I believe the
>> interview does have a few absolutes that have not been thoroughly
>> researched, although I have the utmost respect for Geert and his critique
>> of corporate-based social media: it’s just not fair to museums that are
>> making striking progress, and of course the many alternative arts
>> organizations, maker-faires, and hack-a-thons around the world that are
>> incorporating socially-based forms of art and science.
>>
>> Regarding Annie’s concern for place: I agree, we need the means of
>> interaction that while remote, give us a more real-time, visual, media-rich
>> form of interaction and engagement. I enjoy the ease and simplicity of an
>> email list, but there are times you want to see faces, hear voices, trade
>> gestures, communicate with sound, all of which is near impossible in this
>> medium as a live experience. There is no replacing the live: we need to
>> embed the real-time into our networked interactions, which for many of us
>> here has been at the heart of our artistic work and research. We are all
>> nodes on a network, and we need to find ways to engage forms of live
>> connectivity that are as easy as sending an email.
>>
>> Randall
>> From: <netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org> on behalf of Annie Abrahams
>> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 10:55 AM
>> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] An interview with Geert Lovink
>>
>> I have been to a shop to buy some coffee beans and while riding my bike,
>> I thought : wasn't I a bit nasty to furtherfield/netbehaviour? When back I
>> found some reactions that reassured me, but
>> I had been thinking that somehow I was a bit sour on
>> furtherfield/netbehaviour and I asked myself why, what would you like to be
>> different, to change?
>> A small idea popped up : I miss the connexion between furtherfield live
>> in the park (where I imagine a lot of the work is happening) and
>> furtherfield online - especially netbehaviour. Of course there are the
>> announcements, info on the works showed of people I know online, but I miss
>> thoughts by these actual artists who showed, worked with the real place on
>> what is going on, on how the relation is constructed, of what their work
>> does when place in a gallery place. I miss personal stories on this on
>> netbehaviour.
>>
>> xxx
>> Annie
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Fascinating read. On gallery and museum embrace of post-internet art, I
>>> think there are two things going on. First of all, it's new and it's
>>> acceptance in galleries and museums is probably not much greater than
>>> internet art's acceptance was when it was new. Second of all, most of it
>>> takes forms which galleries and museums are familiar with, i.e. physical
>>> objects, prints, videos, etc. This is a far more attractive fit for
>>> commercial art galleries and doesn't pose any significant archiving issues
>>> for museums. At least, not ones that they haven't encountered before.
>>>
>>> Pall
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:26 AM marc garrett <marc.garrett2 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Paul, Dave, Annie & all,
>>>>
>>>> Regarding Geert's interview -- I actually agree with most of what he
>>>> says. In fact, I tend to agree with most of his ideas and writings.
>>>>
>>>> I think as a group, we're in tune (usually coincidentally with his
>>>> reflections) but, living through them within a grounded context, which is
>>>> of our everyday life experience and as part of surviving as an artist led
>>>> group in a neoliberalist dominated culture.
>>>>
>>>> The audience he's talking to is an e-flux audience, and I think e-flux
>>>> are part of an neoliberalist, elite establishment, so it's positive he is
>>>> discussing these issues to its audience.
>>>>
>>>> Although, Paul has mentioned already things have been getting better
>>>> and there is evidence of things gettign better. I would say that's true in
>>>> some ways, but it may also be true that some of us have got older and into
>>>> power and so able to support media art and net art more these days. And
>>>> before this was not the case ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Wishing you well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> marc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30 September 2015 at 14:07, Paul Hertz <ignotus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well, happy to post polemics, it's a kind of a hobby. :^}.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think there has been a tendency for mainstream curators to approach
>>>>> more recent digitally-mediated works as if they were in effect a sort of
>>>>> hybrid old media, while still neglecting both historical and current "pure"
>>>>> digital media. This has meant that certain kinds of digital hard copy
>>>>> (modded photographic prints, collage and drawings, and even 3D printing ==
>>>>> "post-digital") can be welcomed while the internet as a platform is
>>>>> generally ignored. I don't have any more evidence for this than
>>>>> observation, and I have felt that the situation for digital art was
>>>>> improving over the last ten years. OTOH, I can readily understand the
>>>>> impatience.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:56 AM, dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think Geert is probably correct though - seems to me the art
>>>>>> "establishment" aren't interested in internet/ digital art, though maybe
>>>>>> they have a different view of it from us on here.  The art world remains a
>>>>>> mystery to me, so I may well be wrong. Thank god for Furtherfield, and I
>>>>>> would love to know who are the curators 'not' scared of it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the ‘post-digital’ bandwagon?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 September 2015 at 13:48, Annie Abrahams <bram.org at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> don't be small, don't think sectarism
>>>>>>> Geert is closer to "us" than most "others"
>>>>>>> get in contact with him, explain and connect, use his critical energy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> invite him to curate, to build, to discuss
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> xxx
>>>>>>> Annie
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:40 PM, NIKOS V <nikos.vv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see the relevance in this approach, allthough  I have to say its
>>>>>>>> allready to late for that criticism no?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Moreover, is he really interested in art?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If yes, as Marc says, where are the references and the names ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And why is Venice Biennial important?To whom????
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2015-09-30 15:36 GMT+03:00 marc.garrett <
>>>>>>>> marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Geert needs to be more specific and highlight the curators who are
>>>>>>>>> 'not' scared and who have been showing technical artwork such as
>>>>>>>>> Furtherifeld & others - his words are not grounded and are too absolute,
>>>>>>>>> they do not reflect reality...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> marc
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/geert-lovink-on-social-media-and-the-arts/2581
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "The absence at the 2015 Venice Bienale of digital arts and
>>>>>>>>> internet works says it all. Curators are afraid to admit they are clueless
>>>>>>>>> and continue their ignorant attitude towards art that deals with the
>>>>>>>>> digital in a direct matter (while checking their smart phone). Everyone
>>>>>>>>> jumps on the ‘post-digital’ bandwagon because that’s cute and safe. [...]
>>>>>>>>> Curators and critics are more than happy to embrace the race, gender, even
>>>>>>>>> the anthroposcene (whatever that is), but are blind for the techno-politics
>>>>>>>>> of the equipment and media they are using themselves so intensely. The
>>>>>>>>> contradictions are becoming absurd. Video was the last technology they had
>>>>>>>>> to deal with, but then it stopped."
>>>>>>>>> — Geert Lovink
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> //
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> enjoy,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- Paul
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> *Furtherfield*
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>>>>>>> <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/choose-your-muse-interview-annie-abrahams>
>>>>>>> <https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/ed-atkins-remediating/>
>>>>>>>
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>> *26 09 14h*  *vivre entre – from estranger to e-stranger*, une
>> *conférence performéefestival Magdalena, * La Bulle Bleue
>> <http://www.labullebleue.fr/#%21/magdalenaproject>, 285 rue du Mas de
>> Prunet, Montpellier
>>
>> aabrahams.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/vivre-entre-from-estranger-to-e-stranger/
>>
>>
>> *besides, *online performances *On Object Agency *
>> with Martina Ruhsam
>> *archives* (text, script, video, images)
>> bram.org/besides/
>> *Marc Garrett* interviewed me for the *Choose Your Muse* series on
>> *Furtherfield*
>>
>> furtherfield.org/features/interviews/choose-your-muse-interview-annie-abrahams
>> <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/choose-your-muse-interview-annie-abrahams>
>> <https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/ed-atkins-remediating/>
>>
>>
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> *26 09 14h*  *vivre entre – from estranger to e-stranger*, une
> *conférence performéefestival Magdalena, * La Bulle Bleue
> <http://www.labullebleue.fr/#%21/magdalenaproject>, 285 rue du Mas de
> Prunet, Montpellier
>
> aabrahams.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/vivre-entre-from-estranger-to-e-stranger/
>
>
> *besides, *online performances *On Object Agency *
> with Martina Ruhsam
> *archives* (text, script, video, images)
> bram.org/besides/
> *Marc Garrett* interviewed me for the *Choose Your Muse* series on
> *Furtherfield*
>
> furtherfield.org/features/interviews/choose-your-muse-interview-annie-abrahams
> <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/choose-your-muse-interview-annie-abrahams>
> <https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/ed-atkins-remediating/>
>
>
> <http://turbulence.org/commissions/besides/>
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