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   [Date]: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 07:37:29 +0200
   [From]: Pat Binder <pat@uinic.de>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: web curating/exhibiting


hello everybody,
hi Christy,

"A second idea has to do with the curator as talent scout.  I think many
curators depend too heavily on their existing networks. Exclusionary
tactics are often not tactics at all.  People don't have enough time or
impetus to search for new voices.  When selecting work for My Millennium
and when creating a syllabus for a trace Writer's workshop I felt I
should seek out and include projects from around the world." (Christy
Sheffield Sanford on Wed, 06 Oct 1999)

First of all congratulations for your project's approach!

What I would like to ask you and the other fourm's members, if there
shouldn't be a web-specific curating-exhibiting modality. The audience
usually doesn't take the time to really get through the proposed
web-works, since online-time is money. On the other hand it is really
important, since the audience is spread around the world, to give some
hints of what the work is dealing with, or what one should be looking
for, or what technical feature is being used in an original way, or some
references to previous works (maybe "real" works of the same artist, or
a specific cultural context the work should be framed in, etc.

What do you think?

pat