Questions and Answers

Questions as Answers

Answers as Questions


Language

Question (Shock of the View):
How does language help or hinder in our understanding of digital work?
In our attempt to understand net-work and the virtual are our attempts to
overlay existing categories and definitions (object, performance, space,)an obstacle to our attempt to understand/appreciate?

Question (Natalie Bookchin):
Doesn't language both enable and limit our understanding of all things?
Why should digital work be any different?
Don't existing categories used for "old" media often start to slip when applied to "new" media?
For example, where is the "object" in RSN? Is it the computer, the camera, the server? and who is the artist?
Please select one of following that best fits an example of shifting categories based on various incidents
noticed thus far in"The Shock of the View"

History/Histrionics/Hype

"It isn't really a matter of how much materiality a work has, but what the artist is doing with it." -Lucy Lippard, 1973

Question (Shock of the View):
What is new about "new" media?

Answer (Natalie Bookchin):

Question (Shock of the View):
What similarities and difference exists between the "real" and virtual art objects/performances/space?

Answer (Natalie Bookchin):
Real:

Virtual:

Question (Shock of the View):
Is digital/virtual work a continuation of the "dematerialization of the art object" that has characterized
new art of the last thirty years?

Answer: (Natalie Bookchin):
yes or no

You can make a digital photograph, frame it and hang it in a gallery.

Control & Subversion

Question (Shock of the View):
How does the virtual object subvert and/or expand its potential for being seen, experienced, or collected?
Does "virtual" art need the museum?
Do museums need virtual art?

Answer: (Natalie Bookchin):
Perhaps for the first time, the museum needs "virtual" art more than "virtual" art needs the museum.
Search engines and emailing lists may have given artists the upper hand in this respect -- (museums no longer equal visibility.)

Question (Shock of the View):
Does anyone see it?

Answer: (Natalie Bookchin):
You are the visitor to visit this site

Question (Shock of the View):
Does anyone care?

Answer: (Natalie Bookchin):

Question (Shock of the View):
How are audiences expected to experience a virtual object? i.e.: do they expect to see them in a museum, in their home, at work, on a 15 inch monitor etc.

Answer and Question (Natalie Bookchin):
At home you expect to see a TV screen, at a museum you expect to see a painting in a frame and at work you expect to see a computer.
But, then what do expectations have to do with anything whatsoever?


Question (Shock of the View):
Does anyone actually take the time to view/experience net-work? (Work that can be accessed through the Internet)?

Answer (Natalie Bookchin):
Please add your name to the list of those taking the time:
Your Name:

Affiliation:

Email

Artistic Practice

Question (Shock of the View):
What has an artist created when she has created a virtual object(space/performance)?
Is this aesthetic activity different from creating actual objects?

Question (Natalie Bookchin):
Do you mean Actual Objects such as videos, films, photography, choreography?

Question (Shock of the View): What are the artistic opportunities and obstacles of working with nascent and primitive forms of a technology?

Answer (Natalie Bookchin):
Artistic Opportunities

Artistic Obstacles:

Question (Shock of the View):
In what ways do virtual work( or net-work) differ from other forms of digital art practice?

Answer (Natalie Bookchin):