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   [Date]: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:43:23 -0500
   [From]: "Juan Jose Diaz Infante" <jdiazinfante@altamiracave.com>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: The Shrinking Web and What to do about it.

Hi Chris
Hi all


I want to clarify something about something that I think I did not say.

Ars Electrinica gave an award to Linux. Nothing to do with conventional or
electronic art or art. It was only context. India on itself has the talent
and potentiality to surpass that.
My point is that the electronic and web artists in India already exists, it
is only a matter of context.

regards

Juan
>

> This is, of course, an excellent quote. In a way it supports my statement
> that artists are not required to migrate to the Internet or electric art. My
> point was to react to Juan Jose Diaz Infante's statement that the artist's
> of India were slow to explore the electronic arts. I suspect that a high
> percentage of well formed artists are unlikely to leap to a medium that is
> expensive and has a non-artistic learning curve that is technical in nature
> and extensive. Certainly not without a push, a shove and a good reason.