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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Hello,<BR>
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Just a critical note on something that stayed on my mind after I wrote my last reply. I quote below,<BR>
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On 4/16/06 12:20 PM, "Paul D. Miller" <anansi1@earthlink.net> wrote:<BR>
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The curators in the artworld have no idea about how to deal with this, and the digital media scene in terms of the real practice of multi-culturalism, needs some serious work as well.<BR>
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One thing I would say about this is that the statement has a certain assumption about curators in the artworld. Given that I was proposed as an example by Paul, I would like to clarify two things.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>people who hold positions in cultural institutions today may have an intimate background in their professional focus. They don’t just pop out of the ether to fulfill their positions as though they were replicants from Blade Runner ready to serve their masters.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>There appears to be a subtle statement for a necessity of “cultural insiderism,” (as Paul Gilroy would say), if one is to make statements on specific histories.<BR>
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I should clarify here that I do believe that many people currently active in academic institutions (including myself—not a curator but artist/writer) have been part of the histories they focus on as these developed. This is not to justify my position, but to explain that the real problem is that there might be some resistance according to the traditional avant-garde model (or should we say neo-avant-garde) in the statement above to claim that the institutions “cannot get it.” This position “goes back, way back, back into time”—hit me! aahhh!--fresh, at least 150 years.<BR>
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Siya,<BR>
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