| Eduardo Kac on 5 Aug 2000 18:40:27 -0000 |
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I hope this will be of interest: Articles about the end of Mirapaul's Arts@Large column : Wired News <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37843,00.html> The New Republic <http://www.tnr.com/online/kettmann080400.html> E-mail addresses to express your opinion to the NYT: <cybertimes@nytimes.com> also <letters@nytimes.com> Please see below my email to the NYT. EK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ Dear Sir, Madam I am writing to express my dismay at the announcement that the Arts@Large column will no longer be published. This column was what drew me to the web edition of the New York times in the first place; while there, I often read several other articles. I have followed the column from the beginning and can assure you that it is without parallel, both for the quality of the writing and for its ability to keep up with -- and often to anticipate -- developments in the field. I'm afraid the same cannot be said about the majority of current journalistic writing on cyberspace elsewhere. Perhaps the most unique and important quality of the column was that it reported on digital culture and technology not purely and simply from the ephemeral commercial perspective, which saturates the media with sameness and perpetuates the false notion that cyberspace is "business as usual" and not a driving force in the new digital culture. The "Arts@Large column" played the key role of reminding us that new media has a very important cultural presence. If readers cannot count on the New York Times to stand above average and report on innovative cultural practices, on what daily paper can one count in the US? As a subscriber to the print edition of the New York Times, I hope that the paper will see the wisdom of reconsidering this decision, and that it will bring the column back in its original form. Sincerely, Eduardo Kac Assistant Professor of Art and Technology The School of the Art Institute of Chicago ______________________________________________________________________ Eduardo Kac Assistant Professor of Art and Technology Art and Technology Department The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 414 Chicago IL 60603 Phone: (312) 345-3567 Fax: (312) 345-3565 E-mail: ekac@artic.edu http://www.ekac.org ______________________________________________________________________ Research Fellow Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport, UK ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold