[Nettime-bold] On Whitney's net art panel

[miranda@TCNJ.EDU]

Check out my report on the 2002 Whitney Biennial Net Art Panel 
Discussion held Friday March 8th at the New School’s Tishman 
Auditorium.  Below are excerpts from the report.

Full report available at:
http://www.thespleen.com/culture/nideaquinidealla/index.php?artID=576

Overall the discussion was well organized, the speakers were concise, 
thoughtful, even jovial and best of all no one tried to take center stage...

One commonality amongst the projects is that each one presents a neat 
package. Though they may all contain or even be composed by dynamic 
data, the visual format and representation is polished (this to my 
estimation is the curse of institutional museums that renders them 
incapable of presenting something truly experimental or innovative)...

Four of the nine projects included, Mark Napier’s Riot, Lisa Jevbratt’s 1:1, 
John Klima’s EARTH, and Benjamin Fry’s Valence, all had a similar 
undercurrent – that of learning how to paint with data. Perhaps, this is 
what Christiane means by data visualization, if so data visualization in art 
falls far short in comparison to robotics and other applied fields. 
According to such a definition of data visualization, net art merely 
emulates traditional mediums, primarily painting and illustration, only 
using data rather than paint and graphite to produce nifty visuals that may 
change in real time. Fortunately, to other artists and curators, data 
visualization contains much more potent and applied social significance...

Read the full report available at:
http://www.thespleen.com/culture/nideaquinidealla/index.php?artID=576 

ricardo miranda


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