[add-art dev] adding another non-goal

[Tobias Leingruber]

yeah, non-commercial art :-D

steve, i'd love to curate an art show in the context of digital culture 
from my favourite german artists some day (not now)
is there a waiting list or something?

tobi

Steve Lambert schrieb:
> 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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