From: Sam Wells (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 19:46:27 PDT
> I think this is happening because the avant-garde film world has been
> "hung up" on the film aspect of its tradition,
But that IS a major aspect of the tradition, *like it or not*
It's the medium some artists who are among those we are ostensibly
discussing have chosen, better or worse.
(No one in their right mind should choose experimental film in the
first place. And I mean that).
Now, I'm all for expanding this thing in directions that definitely
include "digital media" -- I'm working in a hybrid myself currently.
But I'm suspicious; If the exhibition spaces won't do film right or
film at all when that IS the choice (the artist's choice which I WILL
defend here) why will they automatically respect *whatever* givens the
work in "digital" (or whatever else might happen) as well ?
The struggle, as it were, shifts to other fronts but it doesn't go away.
-Sam
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