[add-art dev] adding another non-goal

[Steve Lambert]

Hey everyone,

I just got an email from a fan of Add-Art saying that he doesn't like  
the current show and there was a comment on the forum about it too.   
And that reminded me of something.

As you may have seen on the front page of the dev wiki:
http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/add-art/wiki/Add-Art
Early on I had listed goals and non-goals for the project.  These are  
intended to be guiding principles we can look to as the project moves  
forward - and reference points for people in the future were we all  
to be hit by busses. I want to add a non-goal if it's ok with  
everyone.  Something like...

- People don't have to like the art.

This is part of what I wrote back to the guy after thanking him for  
his feedback and a couple other paragraphs of other info.

> It's important to me that we're not putting art out to please  
> people.  The curators and artists involved shouldn't feel like they  
> need to create safe, pleasing decorations for web pages. We want  
> contemporary art brought into our everyday lives, and that should  
> challenge our ideas of what we like and what art is. Including me.  
> Maybe if we had designers, those goals would be different.  But Add- 
> Art shouldn't become wall-paper.  If it's really not for you, you  
> can disable Add-Art until our next show comes out on June 19th.

(Out of context it might sound harsh, but I was nice)

I'm asking you because I want this project to be ours, not mine. I  
feel like I'm ratifying the constitution a little so I want to make  
sure this is ok with everyone, even though I think the spirit of this  
concept has been in it since the beginning.

Your comments?

Steve

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Steve Lambert
http://visitsteve.com
Eyebeam Senior Fellow
http://eyebeam.org




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