Michael Szpakowski
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Works in Harlow United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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DISCUSSION

Request for Comments


HI Andrew
I'm glad you re-drew our attention to this because I very much enjoyed watching it.
As a documentary about your work it seems to me to suceed admirably; it's lucid, well paced &
visually engaging, it eschews cloying quirkiness and self reference (text-to-speech female voice aside, which actually works very well) you're quite stern with yourself in avoiding the common artist temptation to both assume *and* tell too much.
I was also fascinated by the confluence in your work of two apparently very disparate ways of working: the mail art and the performative work around avatars and gender. I was also impressed by your research.
How does the actual work manifest other than in this video? - Sherman like stills? performance? video? ( or did I miss something?)
Anyway, thanks.
michael

DISCUSSION

Request for Comments


HI Andrew
I'm glad you re-drew our attention to this because I very much enjoyed watching it.
As a documentary about your work it seems to me to suceed admirably; it's lucid, well paced &
visually engaging, it eschews cloying quirkiness and self reference (text-to-speech female voice aside, which actually works very well) you're quite stern with yourself in avoiding the common artist temptation to both assume *and* tell too much.
I was also fascinated by the confluence in your work of two apparently very disparate ways of working: the mail art and the performative work around avatars and gender. I was also impressed by your research.
How does the actual work manifest other than in this video? - Sherman like stills? performance? video? ( or did I miss something?)
Anyway, thanks.
michael

DISCUSSION

Sporkworld gets a Makeover


Hi Max
<What kind of a website is it? >
take a look :)
<Would you wish to discuss this makeover or your site at all in>
Personally I think the categorisation of posts is a guide -my starting point would be that in a *discussion* list about *art* pretty much anything pertaining to *art* could be the starting point for a *discussion*.
In any case unless the thing's being massively abused then I think the fine call of where it goes should be left to the discretion of the poster..the last thing we need is the Rhizome category police.
I'd be quite interested to have your opinion & then perhaps a discussion here about Millie's site - personally I love her work, though I'm not sure even your rather impressive analytical/rhetorical skills can marshall it into ushering in a new art historical era
michael

DISCUSSION

DRAWING IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION


There's no such thing as 'invention' -there's only
wrangling the facts of nature; applied discovery.
Furthermore no one does this by themselves but only by
building on the work of countless others.
Human beings are social beings in everything we do.
Something analagous applies in art which is why not only patents
but copyright too should be consigned to the dustbin of
history.
It's utterly bizarre that anyone would expect to be
personally recompensed (except of course for their
labour time) for something that potentially benefits
everyone.
Look at the way patents are used in medical and
pharmacological research for an indication of whether
they represent something progressive...
michael