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   [Date]: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:19:45 PDT
   [From]: "Raul Ferrera-Balanquet" <ferrera98@hotmail.com>
     [To]: forum1@hkw.kbx.de
[Subject]: the web se esta encogiendo



Since I recieved Gerad's comment, I wanted to respond, but I was inmerse on
survival-needing to finish grant/figuring out how a Latino artist living in
the United State can continue his work kind of frinzie.-

I recognized that what Gerad wrote is a fact and I enjoy very much what Ami
did, offering us tip on how to keep alive in the neocolonial cyber
territory.

At the beginning of the the 90's, I was invloved in a social television
project based in New York named "Deep Dish TV." The project was directed
then by Martha Wallner, a woman capable of activating  a red of producers
from all over the USA, Latin America, Canada and Europe.

What fascinated me about Deep Dish TV was the way in which the producers
contributed to the programs. Sometime people produced 2, 3 or 30 minutes
pieces and at Deep Dish TV the coordinator producers assambled the tv
series.

After reading Ami's posting, I had a flash to that period of my life. Those
of us who are independent web producers and artists should  figure out how
to create a hyperlink red among ourselves. Then, we will have the chance to
inform people who visit our site about the existance of other sites. It is a
very small thing, but the exchange of ad banners is a commun thing on the
web. That could be a good point of start, even for the future of the fourum.
If we link ourselve we could take the fourum beyond December and have a
physical result of the exchange we had experience during this time.

Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, MFA
Interdisciplinary Artist and Scholar
ferrera98@hotmail.com
http://www.artswire.org/krosrods/curriculum/index.html