Michael Szpakowski
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DISCUSSION

Drifter (2008) - Magali Reus


I see this is an embedded QT.

For a brief, glorious, period after Rhizome moved to its current format it was possible, as an ordinary member, to post not only Flash:

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/27820/#50658

but also Shockwave and QT here.

Most of the things I made then now just sit as sad bits of code:

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/30304

or

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/27878

(and a few other things)

but, curiously, some of them seem to partially work:

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/28015

( images, yes; sound, no)

I'm not making any big claims for the things I did on the list, although I think they were amusing and, to some extent, a little different.

There is an interesting imbalance here, though, where it appears Rhizome staffers can have recourse to QT for archiving and commentary purposes ( and I'll say again how great I think the Rhizome front page currently is; an unmatchable resource, thoughtfully and elegantly put together and presented) but those of us who've been around for years commenting, arguing & occasionally trying to make work on the site are shut out...

Now that moderation is a feature of Rhizome life and will be for the forseeable future could we have QT and Shockwave back? ( I know it was accidental, but it was great)
michael



DISCUSSION

On Tour


I think it's important to defend the right of critics to write what they like in whatever way they like.
Are we going to have the farcical situation where ( as happened to restaurant critics recently) artists attempt to use the law to enforce a particular view of their work? It's not, as a number of people have pointed out, as if Brian Droitcour's comments were remotely negative. Even had they been so it wouldn't alter the principle of the thing a jot. Nor would it if Brian Droitcour had asserted that Tosic's work had actually been made by small green tentacled creatures from the planet Arg. I meet up with loads of artists/writers when they're over here in the UK. Sometimes I show them round London and sometimes I buy them lunch - it doesn't oblige them to say nice (or even accurate) things about my work. How bizarre to think hospitality carries that obligation on the part of the recipient! Brian's comments may or may not have accorded with Tosic's own view of his work but that is entirely the *point* of critics & we should defend that privilege unless we want an art world that is even more mushy and corrupt than it is already.
Tosic's Violet Elizabeth Bott act -"I'll thcream and thcream 'till I'm thick"- verges on the behaviour of the bully. I for one would like to express my solidarity with Brain Droitcour and with Rhizome - damn right don't alter it in *any way whatsoever* -to do so would be an inexcusable betrayal both of Brian Droitcour and of any notion of *independent* critical commentary...
michael

DISCUSSION

On Tower Bridge


thank-you , Karen.