http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/art-space-talk-scott-kildall-and.html

http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/art-space-talk-scott-kildall-and.html

As for my putting my own credentials behind it, it’s not icky – it’s sticky. That actually had a little risk to it, and almost has to do with things like Second Front, the Mattes, etc. Who should care about virtual performance art? But in all honesty, compared to the tactical media projects I’ve been involved in, art in general is a microcosm. Tempests in teapots, until you become someone like Steve Kurtz…

That’s not blase; that’s just speaking the facts.

The fact that (for some strange reason) we care about art is not blase, either – although the larger society may consider us academic in our own right. Again, in many cases, the arguing is people fighting over scraps of credibility when there are so many better things to do.

0: I actually was not a progenitor of th eproject, but I thought it was “interesting” to see what they would do. Using my creds was probably necessary; although it probably didn’t help me that much. Took one for the team if it lessened my cred any, but you have to take risks once in a while.

1: Sure, it was strategic. Maybe one could also look at it as a model for critique of the contemporary “strategic” artist. II don’t find this that interesting, because the argument devolves quickly.

2: It did get interesting when I saw the arcane underbelly of Wikipedia, and I will never let my students cite from it again.

3: … (to be continued)

4: As for Tom’s “icky” and other comments during the Surfin Club debacle on Rhizome (another temest/teapot. This pose of the growly troll is old – Josh Zeidner, Kandinskii, Lismore, Antiorp, Brad Brace, nn, integer, have all institutionalized this position as “anti-strategy” that’s just as much of a pose as a strategy.

4b: As for my veracity, as I told Joseph McElroy – I’m a pretty stright up person, and rarely pose for the camera. I just have a passion for this, and if I lost that, I’d walk. Many of today’s new medi agang are about the PR game, positioning, strategies. I do that a little bit if it fits the concept. Beyond that, while nothing’s pure, my veracity is still pretty much there – you see what you get, and it’s out fo a spirit of support for a love of thsi stufff and support of the community. so for those of you who think otherwise, well, comments from people like the ‘nasty’ Tom Moody are often not worth a lot of my time. Although I’d buy him a couple rounds on the spot were I ever to see him in the flesh.