hey ada, i was talking yesterday to a semi-famous Austrian net/code artist, about New Zealand artists. i realised a know a lot of artists (in the traditional sense - painting and sculpture and whatnot) but that their work is practically invisible to the rest of the world because most of them don't have any kind of web presence.
she was saying that there are a lot of people with money (eg in the US) who would love to have access to a pool of talented artists who are currently undiscovered - and why on earth don't these people have websites? we went on to talk about Austria and the Netherlands - the Austrian scene eg Farmersmanual got a real head-start because of government-sponsored web access - in particular Farmersmanual were offered the use of streaming video technology virtually for free, at a time when this was incredibly expensive; the Dutch used to lead net-art because of the government sponsored XS4ALL service. would a similar thing for NZ artists help gaining international recognition? in an election year, do you think we could convince some party to offer sponsorship of artists websites - covering at least hosting (which would be very, very cheap to implement) and at best web site development for those without web-knowledgeable friends...? thoughts? d -- damian stewart | skype: damiansnz | [EMAIL PROTECTED] frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
