Some of you, like me, might choose to skip the occasional episode of the sassy-but-self-effacing-art-dudes-in-Chicago podacst, Bad At Sports. But here are two 2008 episodes that I very much enjoyed...when I listened to them for the first time yesterday.
Episode 167: Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson
Paddy Johnson, of course, writes a brilliant blog in NYC. Duncan does a good long interview with her, mulling over the ins and outs of her impressively committed blog practice and the pros and cons of online art criticism. I had to laugh when she said she edits non-sequitors from her comment threads. Over here things work more like word association football.
Episode 160: The All Canada Show
Duncan goes to Calgary and interviews MN Hutchinson who, in about 40 minutes, gives the most coherent and up-to-date account of the history of Artist-Run Centres and their impact that I've ever heard. Here's a bit where they are both discussing Duncan's earlier question, "Going forward, who do the Artist-Run Centres serve, what community are they serving, what does the future look like for Artist-Run Centres?"
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Duncan: There is always a class of artists that exist in every city and every country that don't ever professionalize. They make a decision that they don't want to teach, and they don't want to be a gallery stable artist. They just want to do what they do, and they would rather work as a tech in an AV department, or they would rather sell stocks in their daytime, or they would rather sell shoes, or be a dentist and still make really interesting, really viable contributions.
HN: Yeah, that's exactly my point. [The Artist-Run Centres] build a kind of community, something that's really vibrant, and feeds back into those people that do choose to make it a career. I think its important for that stuff to get out there so that they don't think that there's only six people making art in Canada, and are only judging themselves against that. There is a kind of competition factor. How do you compete with somebody that can afford to not have to make a certain body of work on a regular basis, but can really just do something out of left field? And that influences the conceptual structure of the work that's being done everywhere. And what is that? That's really going back to the roots of the Artist-Run Centre beginnings.
Paddy Johnson is my only friend on Facebook. And the only one I want! so fuck off everyone else, especially the other 2 people who wanted to be my friends.
I still haven't joined despite getting some email invites.
Long live the open web and the spammers who are our friends here.
Speaking of off topic.
L.M. maybe I should tell everyone on my friend list (many of whom are people that I have no blinking idea who the blink they are) to invite you as a friend. It's the MOST irritating thing about the 'book. People get all patronizing and maternal and suggest that other people add each other to each other's lists, causing no end of mayhem. Of course I just did it to Joester, but that's cause I keep getting Uniden spam since he signed me up for their newsletter. After I signed him up for their newsletter.
Sally, as a seasoned Internet vet, has Facebook changed your life the way it has every one of my formerly net-baffled friends and family members?
Is it more secure somehow being in a gated community? That seems to be the appeal but I still like the jungle out here (especially with comments off).
hm. I didn't know the 'book was reeling in former non-net participants. That's interesting. No it hasn't changed my life, just mostly added a level of annoyance. And it certainly doesn't feel 'secure' one little bit. There's all these seemingly sane people updating their profile every two minutes to say if they're baking cookies or whatever. To an old dog like me that's not a safe environment. But I'm glad to have a toe in the water, just to be able to say I been there.
It seems like I'm hearing a lot of "I hated computers before I got a Mac" coupled with "I was never a big Internet person but I love Facebook."
I even heard "______ put some artwork up on Facebook and got reviewed on _______" suggesting that the NY art world, heretofore the world's biggest computer/internet haters, have joined the digital age about 16 years late thanks to this marvelous platform.
I'm like you, I see it as one more way to add info-noise to my life, also to be tracked down by schoolmates I do not remember.
I have twitter but am only following a small group because I can't handle the extra data (nothing personal, anyone!). Even there I have people "following" me who are professional marketers and get promptly blocked.
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Some of you, like me, might choose to skip the occasional episode of the sassy-but-self-effacing-art-dudes-in-Chicago podacst, Bad At Sports. But here are two 2008 episodes that I very much enjoyed...when I listened to them for the first time yesterday.
Episode 167: Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson
Paddy Johnson, of course, writes a brilliant blog in NYC. Duncan does a good long interview with her, mulling over the ins and outs of her impressively committed blog practice and the pros and cons of online art criticism. I had to laugh when she said she edits non-sequitors from her comment threads. Over here things work more like word association football.
Episode 160: The All Canada Show
Duncan goes to Calgary and interviews MN Hutchinson who, in about 40 minutes, gives the most coherent and up-to-date account of the history of Artist-Run Centres and their impact that I've ever heard. Here's a bit where they are both discussing Duncan's earlier question, "Going forward, who do the Artist-Run Centres serve, what community are they serving, what does the future look like for Artist-Run Centres?"
- sally mckay 1-16-2009 1:17 pm
Paddy Johnson is my only friend on Facebook. And the only one I want! so fuck off everyone else, especially the other 2 people who wanted to be my friends.
- L.M. 1-16-2009 11:08 pm
I still haven't joined despite getting some email invites.
Long live the open web and the spammers who are our friends here.
- tom moody 1-17-2009 12:34 am
Speaking of off topic.
- tom moody 1-17-2009 12:35 am
L.M. maybe I should tell everyone on my friend list (many of whom are people that I have no blinking idea who the blink they are) to invite you as a friend. It's the MOST irritating thing about the 'book. People get all patronizing and maternal and suggest that other people add each other to each other's lists, causing no end of mayhem. Of course I just did it to Joester, but that's cause I keep getting Uniden spam since he signed me up for their newsletter. After I signed him up for their newsletter.
- sally mckay 1-17-2009 11:49 pm
Sally, as a seasoned Internet vet, has Facebook changed your life the way it has every one of my formerly net-baffled friends and family members?
Is it more secure somehow being in a gated community? That seems to be the appeal but I still like the jungle out here (especially with comments off).
- tom moody 1-18-2009 12:39 am
hm. I didn't know the 'book was reeling in former non-net participants. That's interesting. No it hasn't changed my life, just mostly added a level of annoyance. And it certainly doesn't feel 'secure' one little bit. There's all these seemingly sane people updating their profile every two minutes to say if they're baking cookies or whatever. To an old dog like me that's not a safe environment. But I'm glad to have a toe in the water, just to be able to say I been there.
- sally mckay 1-18-2009 4:32 am
It seems like I'm hearing a lot of "I hated computers before I got a Mac" coupled with "I was never a big Internet person but I love Facebook."
I even heard "______ put some artwork up on Facebook and got reviewed on _______" suggesting that the NY art world, heretofore the world's biggest computer/internet haters, have joined the digital age about 16 years late thanks to this marvelous platform.
I'm like you, I see it as one more way to add info-noise to my life, also to be tracked down by schoolmates I do not remember.
I have twitter but am only following a small group because I can't handle the extra data (nothing personal, anyone!). Even there I have people "following" me who are professional marketers and get promptly blocked.
- tom moody 1-18-2009 7:51 am