Rhizome.org to host Blogging and the Arts panel
Public Program:
Blogging and the Arts
Tuesday, November 23, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Location:
New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea
556 West 22nd Street
*** Rhizome.org Director of Technology Francis Hwang will lead a panel discussion entitled Blogging and the Arts. The panel includes artist Kabir Carter, photoblogger and journalist David F. Gallagher, artist and critic Tom Moody, and artist T.Whid. The discussion will address questions such as whether blogs will change the nature of discourse in the fine arts field, and ways that artists and critics are integrating this new form of communications into their own work. ***
About Rhizome.org
Founded in 1996, Rhizome.org is an internet-based platform for the global new media arts community. Through programs such as publications, online discussion, art commissions, and archiving, it supports the creation, presentation, discussion, and preservation of contemporary art using new technologies. Since 2003, Rhizome.org has been affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
This is an interesting mix (including me blah blah), and overdue. I think the new media community will learn of this event via the cyber-Drum and hopefully some will turn out. If anyone knows gallerists or critics or other real space artworld types, please tell them about this because I'm still getting blank looks from that quarter on the subject and/or value of blogging. The art journalism lag on this is frankly pathetic. Artnet (a magazine, not a blog digest) still practically owns the cyber-art-journalism field, although individual blogs such as Tyler Green's are getting more widely known. But the phenomenon of independent blogs embarrassing Institutional Media and demanding that it be more accountable hasn't happened in the art world as it did in politics. Also, "name" critics aren't starting blogs as they have in the political/mediacrit sphere. Vanity Fair scribe James Wolcott has a blog now, so where is Jerry Saltz's? Roberta Smith's? Robert Storr's? David Rimanelli's? Why are they still hiding behind the cloak of institutional authority? Do they need editors that much? Are they insecure?
These are my pet peeves, though: the Rhizome panel, by its choices of who was invited, is less grouchy (or, of more universal interest) in that it focuses on practicing artists and how blogs are impacting their work, rather than the deficiencies and pathologies of institutions. I hope to write more about the other panelists (based on surfing their blogs) in advance of the event. [One interesting factoid: Gallagher in his journalist career is the first writer to use the term "web log" in the New York Times, on December 28, 2000.] On his blog, twhid asks for suggestions about what to talk about. I'm similarly open here, but refer readers to an earlier dialogue I had with twhid and others in response to a Danish student's questions about "artblogs," which she seemed to assume were a much more evolved and accepted entity than they are. Here are some relevant links:
What is an art blog? 1 / 2 / 3 (scroll down)
One afterthought: the panel lists me as "artist and critic" but I prefer "artist who writes" (or better, just "artist") because the art world is quite old-fashioned and actually punitive in its expectation that artists will only wear one hat, and will otherwise be perceived as uncommitted. Starting this blog was a way to scrape off some of the barnacles of institutional criticism that I found attaching to myself; I guess it's not working, but then I can't make myself shut up.
Hey Tom, good idea, I forgot about the art blog posts... here is the link to that post on mtaaRR:
mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/art_blogs
I think the panel idea is excellent. Tom and Twhid, you will both be great. Just describe what you do and why you do it. Tom, I think this post of yours is really pretty relevant to the art blog topic.
Still waiting for an explanation from Elkins for that gaping hole in his text.
I'd say the ball is yours, Tom. Run with it.
I already did! Since no reply has come, I think we all have to assume I'm right, and that Elkins fucked up big time not including artist polemics in his "sources of criticism."
Currently, as a painter I have to say the lack of art blogs is a little disterbing. Being an artist whom does not use the newest technoligy to produce my work, i have to defend Robert Smith and all those crirtics out there by simply stating and asking:
why do art blogs instainly have to be linked with new media work and why can they not be associated with what is out there in the physical world istead of a discource on technology and art. i am not against technology and art work one bit, but i am against the fact that anything that is online, or utilizing the last technology to connect with the masses is auto automatically associated with mult-media technology driven art work. this seems to be a problem with the art world as a whole and not a proble with the critics. Do i have to join the global new media arts community to view a decent and intellegent blog having to do with the art world
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Rhizome.org to host Blogging and the Arts panel
Public Program:
Blogging and the Arts
Tuesday, November 23, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Location:
New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea
556 West 22nd Street
*** Rhizome.org Director of Technology Francis Hwang will lead a panel discussion entitled Blogging and the Arts. The panel includes artist Kabir Carter, photoblogger and journalist David F. Gallagher, artist and critic Tom Moody, and artist T.Whid. The discussion will address questions such as whether blogs will change the nature of discourse in the fine arts field, and ways that artists and critics are integrating this new form of communications into their own work. ***
About Rhizome.org
Founded in 1996, Rhizome.org is an internet-based platform for the global new media arts community. Through programs such as publications, online discussion, art commissions, and archiving, it supports the creation, presentation, discussion, and preservation of contemporary art using new technologies. Since 2003, Rhizome.org has been affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
This is an interesting mix (including me blah blah), and overdue. I think the new media community will learn of this event via the cyber-Drum and hopefully some will turn out. If anyone knows gallerists or critics or other real space artworld types, please tell them about this because I'm still getting blank looks from that quarter on the subject and/or value of blogging. The art journalism lag on this is frankly pathetic. Artnet (a magazine, not a blog digest) still practically owns the cyber-art-journalism field, although individual blogs such as Tyler Green's are getting more widely known. But the phenomenon of independent blogs embarrassing Institutional Media and demanding that it be more accountable hasn't happened in the art world as it did in politics. Also, "name" critics aren't starting blogs as they have in the political/mediacrit sphere. Vanity Fair scribe James Wolcott has a blog now, so where is Jerry Saltz's? Roberta Smith's? Robert Storr's? David Rimanelli's? Why are they still hiding behind the cloak of institutional authority? Do they need editors that much? Are they insecure?
These are my pet peeves, though: the Rhizome panel, by its choices of who was invited, is less grouchy (or, of more universal interest) in that it focuses on practicing artists and how blogs are impacting their work, rather than the deficiencies and pathologies of institutions. I hope to write more about the other panelists (based on surfing their blogs) in advance of the event. [One interesting factoid: Gallagher in his journalist career is the first writer to use the term "web log" in the New York Times, on December 28, 2000.] On his blog, twhid asks for suggestions about what to talk about. I'm similarly open here, but refer readers to an earlier dialogue I had with twhid and others in response to a Danish student's questions about "artblogs," which she seemed to assume were a much more evolved and accepted entity than they are. Here are some relevant links:
What is an art blog? 1 / 2 / 3 (scroll down)
One afterthought: the panel lists me as "artist and critic" but I prefer "artist who writes" (or better, just "artist") because the art world is quite old-fashioned and actually punitive in its expectation that artists will only wear one hat, and will otherwise be perceived as uncommitted. Starting this blog was a way to scrape off some of the barnacles of institutional criticism that I found attaching to myself; I guess it's not working, but then I can't make myself shut up.
- tom moody 11-15-2004 2:45 am
Hey Tom, good idea, I forgot about the art blog posts... here is the link to that post on mtaaRR:
mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/art_blogs
- twhid (guest) 11-15-2004 3:12 am
I think the panel idea is excellent. Tom and Twhid, you will both be great. Just describe what you do and why you do it. Tom, I think this post of yours is really pretty relevant to the art blog topic.
- sally mckay 11-15-2004 8:02 pm
Still waiting for an explanation from Elkins for that gaping hole in his text.
- tom moody 11-16-2004 5:32 am
I'd say the ball is yours, Tom. Run with it.
- sally mckay 11-16-2004 4:29 pm
I already did! Since no reply has come, I think we all have to assume I'm right, and that Elkins fucked up big time not including artist polemics in his "sources of criticism."
- tom moody 11-16-2004 5:02 pm
Currently, as a painter I have to say the lack of art blogs is a little disterbing. Being an artist whom does not use the newest technoligy to produce my work, i have to defend Robert Smith and all those crirtics out there by simply stating and asking:
why do art blogs instainly have to be linked with new media work and why can they not be associated with what is out there in the physical world istead of a discource on technology and art. i am not against technology and art work one bit, but i am against the fact that anything that is online, or utilizing the last technology to connect with the masses is auto automatically associated with mult-media technology driven art work. this seems to be a problem with the art world as a whole and not a proble with the critics. Do i have to join the global new media arts community to view a decent and intellegent blog having to do with the art world
- boi (guest) 11-23-2004 7:33 pm