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Art and the Age of the Digital >>
David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney, was one of the
first major institutional voices to directly address many of the issues
brought up by the appearance of net art. At times insightful, uncertain,
excited and critical, Ross' lecture firmly places Internet art in the
tradition of other media like video art while acknowledging its breakaway
potential.
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[from the site:]
"I've been looking at this material for several years and just the fact
that I've been looking puts me in a position to speak more easily than any
of my colleagues, but the reality is that none of us really know. No
curators, no critics really know where it is artists are taking us in this
extraordinary moment. I find that quite exhilarating, a little frightening
at times, primarily it's energizing. The idea of art that's developing not
only in a way that we can't predict, but in this case it's hard to even
understand what it looks like, what it's going to do, how it functions on
a most basic social level to a complex aesthetic level, we are groping in
the dark. I think that process, for strange people like me, is one I
delight in."
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