martha rosler on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:56:51 -0400 |
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Re: Syndicate: [Fwd: Request for help for Whitney project] |
my, my, a history already, and only just borned. how sweet of these institutions to take netart under their wing. con-GRAT-y-lations! martha rosler >Received: by spool11 (mbox alexei) > (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31-VW1.06 (JT&RM) 8^) 04/04/2001) Tue >Jun 12 04:54:18 2001) >X-From_: sendmail Mon Jun 11 22:27:26 2001 >Received: from inx.inx.net (inx.inx.net [198.70.60.2]) > by spool6.valueweb.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA68294; > Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:27:25 -0400 >Received: from [206.231.6.115] (modem19.nyc.inx.net [206.231.6.38]) > by inx.inx.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA17965; > Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:26:34 -0400 (EDT) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >boundary="============_-1219805506==_ma============" >Message-Id: <v0401170db74a9812aad9@[206.231.6.27]> >Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:36:11 -0500 >To: "Vesna, Victoria" <vesna@arts.ucla.edu> >From: Christiane Paul <paulc@inx.net> >Subject: Request for help for Whitney project >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > >Hi, >it would be great if you could help us with a project (a "history" of net >art) for the artport site by submitting info about your work. Detailed >instructions are below... >Your help would be very much appreciated!! >Best, >Christiane > >============================================================== >Martin Wattenberg is currently working on an "Idealine" for the Whitney's >artport website. The "Idealine" is meant to be a map of net artworks >created over the past six years -- visualizing a "history" of net art in >terms of the ideas and concepts the works are based upon. A crucial aspect >of the project is the idea of context and visualization of >relations/thematic connections between net artworks. The map is a >visualization of a database that has been created for this project. > >Because no one understands a work's context better than the artist, we're >appealing to the net art community to help us create our database. We've >set up an open page on Quickbase, an online data center, which you can use >to add information about yourself, your art, and its relation to other >works of net art. We're hoping that you can add your data and please feel >free to send us your comments on how it might be improved ("wattenberg" ><elzzup@rcn.com>). > >Here are step-by-step instructions: >[Instructions always make it look complicated but this is a pretty easy >process, which you probably would figure out without any help. >Nevertheless, PLEASE READ THROUGH THIS WHOLE MESSAGE in order to avoid >possible confusion] > > >1. Log on to Quickbase. > > a. Go to http://www.quickbase.com > b. Click the large button that says "sign in and register". > c. Sign in with "idealine" as both username and password. > >2. Add yourself to the Artist database. > > a. Click on "Artist" in center gray listing table. > b. Click "Artist list, with ID numbers" from menu at left. > (Are you on the list already? If so, skip to Step 3.) > c. If not, click "Add record" in the top gray menu. > d. Enter your information and click the "save" button. > >3. Add your artwork to the Artwork database. > > a. To return to the main page, click on "My Quickbase" at top > right menu. > (You may want to do this in a new browser window, because > > it's useful to see the artist list later -- you might need the >artists' ID#s) > b. Click on "Artwork" in center gray listing table. > c. Click "Artwork list, with ID numbers" from menu at left. > (Is your work on the list? If so, skip to Step 4.) > d. If not, click "Add record" in the top gray menu. > e. For the "artist" fields, use the ID number of the artist from the > artist listing. > f. Enter your information (fields are self-explanatory): > Title, year, URL > Enter one short sentence describing your piece in the >description field. > Feel free to add additional info to the description! > Choose keywords and technology from the menu (and let us know if >you > want additional keywords or technology to be added) > For now, don't worry about the "context" fields. We'll get to > that in Step 4. > g. Click the "save" button > > >NOTE: >If someone else made an entry for your work, feel free to edit it as you >consider necessary! > >Some of you might have a website that functions as a portal to your works >(such as potatoland.org or easylife.org). While you can add an entry for >the whole site, it would be extremely helpful if you could provide >separate entries for all of your works! We realize that this is >time-consuming but it would be greatly appreciated! > > >4. Add "contexts" for your work. > >The goal of the database is to help people understand the context of your >work; specifically, which other artworks they should think about to fully >understand your work. These other artworks could be >*ones that influenced you >*ones that have a similar goal >*ones that contrast in interesting ways >*previous artworks created by yourself that influenced (or can be >understood as a basis for) the artwork that you're adding >*net artworks that aren't accessible on-line anymore (because they had >been created for an older browser version etc.) -- if possible, please >provide a URL leading to a description of the work >*artworks that aren't net art -- if possible add a URL that leads to info >about the respective work > > >To list another artwork as a "context": > > a. Add the artist to the Artist database if not already there. > b. Add the artwork to the Artwork database if not there. > c. Go to the Artwork list. > d. Click the "Edit" button in the row for your artwork. > e. Edit your entry and click "save". > >NOTE: >You can also supply URLs as contexts instead of entire artwork records; >we'd prefer you use records if possible. > >Your artwork's visualization in the final map will be influenced by the >number and type of works you've cited as contexts. > > >Thanks very much! We really appreciate your effort and advice! -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de> to unsubscribe, write to <majordomo@eg-r.isp-eg.de>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate your@email.adress