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   [Date]: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:36:27 +0530
   [From]: "Anjali Arora" <anjali@artbrush.net>
     [To]: "Cultural Exchange via Internet" <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: The Shrinking Web and What to Do About it

Juan, you may be right about this, but my generalized comment was in the
limited context of whether the Web is a democratic tool, or an elitist one.
There are of course a million other factors that will determine the success
of the business.

In many cases, where it is believed that the web is available to a very few,
the problem lies with those people not willing to unlearn old methods, and
pick up new ones. I feel this is the problem area for the artists that Chris
Drew mentions in today's post ( Pl. correct me if I am wrong on this.) As
far as I can see, there are really no financial or infrastructural problems
which prevent these artists of Chicago from benefitting from the Web.
Similar is the case in India, too, where artists who have been working in
the traditional manner are not willing to try out the new. In fact, some of
the older ones actually think it some kind of artistic compromise to create
using new technologies.

Best regards.
-Anjali Arora


----- Original Message -----
From: Juan Jose Diaz Infante <jdiazinfante@altamiracave.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 4:32 AM

> I would like to make a comment on this particular issue that I think has
to
> do with  my last 2 postings about the theoretical work based on
assumptions
> that are not correct.