..on Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:33:07PM +0200, adam hyde wrote: > > the only thing that will get nz artists recognition is themselves. > government sponsorship will not help, infact if u get a government to > sponsor your site you must either be doing something wrong or you gotta > vote for the other guy cause their judgement is off the rails ;) ..its > not external money etc that gets people known, it is demonstrated > innovation and sometimes that is _inspite of_ the lack of resources > > i'm not advocating that 'artists need to be poor to make good art'. but > i am emphasising that a reliance on gov. funding is not the essential > ingredient to making good art or getting recognised...it has more to do > with the creative exchange of ideas and the passion to experiment
yeah i'll second that. it doesn't matter what your touting, the proof's in the pudding. a work will only ever be as culturally valuable as the culture it transforms. to seek 'recognition' for what one makes is an empty project in itself - work must first be 'recognised'. if a work is seen to be transformative then those that believe so will take care to distribute that value to others without need of any government endorsement, promotional capital or even a website. this is not to say promotion isn't important but i do think it's largely best done on your own; have as much control as possible as to how you and your ideas are represented. leveraging (creepy marketeering word) the web is a good place to start. use youtube, flickr, net-labels, mailing lists whatever it takes to draw attention to your ideas, your contributions. if nothing comes of that then perhaps the ideas themselves just aren't valuable to those that encountered them, at that time. you can take a horse to water.. if a Kiwi artist doesn't have a website by now they probably don't really want one.. fair enough. perhaps making 'important art' just isn't important to them, let alone communicating what they make at all. i certainly don't think however NZ artists wanting web exposure can complain about lack of online promotional resources given the numerous means to get a site up these days, money or none.. if the work's good and there's publically available documentation then the rest will certainly follow. plane tickets from NZ to set up a show elsewhere is another story (alongwith material costs and print/publication budgets). all said i don't think there's anything wrong with the idea (i think) Damian's proposing. setting up a blogspot or myspace account (or just nutting out how to put up a basic page yourself) is all very well. i for one however would gladly accept donated gigabytes with which to store and distribute high-quality documentation and the like.. chars, -- julian oliver http://julianoliver.com messages containing HTML won't be read. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
