Article: NET GAINS.(a discussion of art and digital technologies)(Panel Discussion)

A ROUNDTABLE ON NEW-MEDIA ART

"EAVESDROPPING ON ONLINE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT digital and Net art, I always have a panic-attack feeling that the air has been sucked out of the room. Let's face it, a lot of this stuff is deeply sucky." Strong words from self styled tech maven Mark Dery, but the provation mirrors a common enough skepticism when it comes to the marriage of art and digital technologfies. As Saul Anton, Artforum's new website editor and the moderator of this roundtable, pointedly observes, such reserve is "inversely proportional to the exuberant embrace of all things digital in our culture at large."

Still, the ongoing revolution in digital ...

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