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Hey everyone,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>As you may have seen on the front page of the dev wiki:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/add-art/wiki/Add-Art">http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/add-art/wiki/Add-Art</a></font></div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>- People don't have to like the art.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">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. <br></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>(Out of context it might sound harsh, but I was nice)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Your comments?</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Steve Lambert</div><div><a href="http://visitsteve.com">http://visitsteve.com</a></div><div>Eyebeam Senior Fellow</div><div><a href="http://eyebeam.org">http://eyebeam.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>