[add-art dev] adding another non-goal

[Steve Lambert]

Yeah, that has come up before.  It's the first thing *some* people  
think of.  Specifically Michelle K's husband.

I was thinking it would be nice to throw out a NSFW warning with a  
show like that.  Or figure some way to flag it.  Maybe that can be a  
problem we solve when we're offering more than on show at once?

Steve

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On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:35 PM, ethan at ethanham.com wrote:

> I could also imagine occasionally having "Peoples' Choice" shows  
> were the
> user-base gets to curate it by vote.
>
> One thing we might want to ask curators to keep in mind is whether the
> artwork is "work-safe."  I dislike the idea of censoring artwork,  
> but on
> the other hand it could cause some of our users embarrassment if  
> something
> that could be mistaken for pornography is appearing on their web- 
> browser
> at work.
>
>> To each his/her own.
>>
>> Maybe when this takes off we can have multiple shows that a user can
>> select to view to appease the greatest number of people... but as  
>> they
>> say, you can't please 'em all.
>>
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Steve Lambert wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
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