Patrick Lichty
'I discussed the schism between the code-based net artists and those deciding to use more design-driven Macromedia Flash-based works. As mentioned on the Crumb New Media curating maillist in 2001 (13), one perception of the proliferation of Flash-based net art is that of post dot-com boom designers trying to distinguish themselves in the online milieu, thus the ‘art world’ not taking these Flash creators as serious artists, although this is a somewhat reductive discourse. To compound this, the split between code-based artists and Flash/Director artists fracture the nature of online art along lines of traditional disciplinary difference, technique, and craft. whitneybiennial.com positioned itself to take several critical positions between disciplines, the extant and emerging art worlds, and between ideologies in the online art community itself.'
Excerpts from an account on the curation of new media artwork during the Whitney Biennial 2002.
The curation of new media still reflects Lichty's account of 6 years ago, with Flash designers and coders being seen as separate practitioners with very different concerns. It is taking time for these concerns to be consolidated together under the common core concern of 'artist' or 'art'. I would personally like to explore the possibility of curating another show with set parameters for its content in the form of a software package (Flash, PowerPoint, IMovie) or display mode.
Lichty is a curator and artist who has worked at the Whitney and Venice Bienniales as well as the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is Editor-inChief of Intelligent Agent, an electronic arts/culture journal based in New York.
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