Webby Talk

[Robbin Neal Murphy]

On Wed, 17 May 2000, A! wrote:

 
>> Most of the people I know are involved in figuring out how to set up
>> alternative networks and working with freenet so,

> out of curiosity...
> like what?
> like where?
> urls please if possible

Information systems and network ecologies are what I get excited about
these days, as strange as that sounds. That means I have a different
relationship to art institutions than if I were working more visually in a
way that institutions can accommodate at this time. That's OK, I don't
expect them to. I did enter the SFMOMA Webby competition but mainly to
experience the process. I didn't expect to win anything.

I'm interested in what people like Brad Brace or Cary Peppermint are doing
or even the publisher ellipsis. All are tearing the visual apart and
putting it back together in different forms using networks. So it's hard
to point to any one single URL. Actually, I think it's better to start out
with a search engine like Google or HotBot than a specific website.

GH Hovagimyan has been working with The Thing and is in the process of
setting up his own server to experiment. What action results from these
experiments I don't know.


> it has always been beside the point
> the award is not what needs discussing
> but the state of whats going on in a public way.
> underground and otherwise.

I've started to get a better handle on what I'm doing and the direction
I'm going. I unsubed from Rhizome and started reading these massive
palais-tokyo digests more and am reallocating both my attention and my
time in other ways. Oh, yes, and I also packed up and moved out of New
York and am now tending bar at the Seashell Lounge in St. Pete Beach,
Florida.


> we had to say something really inflammatory in order to see any action
> at all on this list
> a break in the day from seeing the porn stamped with logos.

It just seemed like the kind of negative campaign used by hell.com, which
I find very conservative and annoying and too much like marketing.



> but in order to read any discussion about the issues surrounding what
> gets done and why online where do you go?
> no, seriously i want to know.

They pop up every so often in different places but it's very scattered and
difficult to sustain a prolonged thread. That's what Thingist was set up
for and sometimes it happens though people don't talk enough about their
actual work most of the time. 


> if I have to read one more interview done with Josephine Bosma I'm gonna
> scream.....

I think what Josephine and Tilman have been doing is important and
interesting but these interviews do seem to begin to take the place of
more freeform dialogue sometimes. They make us lazy because somebody else
will do it for us.


> hey, you never know Robbin
> you've won in the past... it could happen again
> be afraid.... be very afraid.....

I don't remember winning anything, at least not money.

Rob

Robbin Murphy
robbin.murphy@nyu.edu
http://artnetweb.com/iola/