Today in 'Shitty Art-world Gatekeepers Treating Artists Shittily' news...
Wondering what happened to some applications that took days and days to put together, I find that @arselectronica who run an EU Digital Deal residency are not even bothering to notify losers! Only winners contacted.
No feedback was bad enough. Now, not even a courtesy 'no thank you'.
Shame on you, Ars Electronica.
Shame on all you gatekeepers who think it's fine to treat people this way.
"The Most Important Network of Art Institutions that You’ve Never Heard of" by Jason Waite (ArtReview).
"Arts Collaboratory is a network of 25 art spaces, mainly from the Global South, including Raw Material Company, Dakar; Kunci, Yogyakarta; Lugar a dudas, Cali; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; ruangrupa, Jakarta; and Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Mexico City, among others. It started in 2007 as more of a traditional art network like the long-running Triangle Network, begun in 1982 and with partnerships in 40 countries, only with the difference that its initiators, the Dutch NGOs DOEN Foundation and Hivos and the publicly funded Mondriaan Fund, provided financial support for the art institutions while wanting to ease bureaucracy for their grantees, provide a platform for them to exchange knowledge and foster South-South art institutional connections."
The Q. of appropriation in the #artworld is always vexed: is it justifiable use of publicly visible resources, or theft of someone else's work & creativity?
This is a long running debate, but in its latest iteration around Lynn Goldsmith's win against the #AndyWarhol foundation, the aspect of the Q. around the (re)use of #photography has come into clear focus.
What you think about this case will depend on how you see 'ownership' in #art!