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bitforms vs vertexList Gallery Comparison Chart
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| bitforms | vertexList |
| Chelsea | Williamsburg |
| Occasional good shows of old school computer art | Finger on current scene |
| Owner opened gallery in Korea | Owner directed movie about 8-Bit art |
| Pipeline to MIT Maeda, er, Media Lab | Pipeline to "discourse artists" |
| Slickly packaged work | Lo-fi with aspirations to slickness |
| Mixes different kinds of computer art | Mixes computer and non-computer art |
| No theory to speak of | Theory out the wazoo, but sometimes wrong (thinks I'm a "Modernist") |
| Owner has fashionable eyewear | No eyewear |
| Owner opened gallery in Korea | Still in one location (Four Walls' old space) |
Missed the Rhizome Net Aesthetics 2.0 panel in Chelsea a couple of nights ago because I had to w*rk. Too bad--really wanted to go. MTAA has a report. The distinction between the early vernacular web and the current more "regulated" web laid out in in Olia Lialina's article here serves as a good background for understanding the shift from net art 1.0 to version 2.0. Essentially it's the world of home pages, links, and artist-scientists vs the world of blogs, Google, and fast delivery of every imaginable kind of content (except the gallerygoing kind), with artists, scientists, and artist-scientists struggling to make sense of it. I have also pontificated on it, though not in product release terms. Another distinction I would make is between the anecdotal ('70s conceptualism in web form--what Sally McKay has called "long-loading, find-the-place-to-click-me narratives packed with theoretically correct reference to the body or lack thereof") and the purely experiential (entertainingly transgressive images, music, and video produced in a collaboration-friendly, peer to peer, non-Industry environment; deliberate confusion between professional and amateur [the vernacular thankfully hasn't gone away]; better sound and pictures generally) that broadband and googling makes possible.
Update: Sal Randolph has a report on the panel at Rhizome.org.*
Update, 2011: The Rhizome link has been changed to http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/20235/ (scroll down to Randolph's comment).