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Art and the Age of the Digital >> David Ross David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney, was one of the first major institutional voices to directly address many of the issues brought up by the appearance of net art. At times insightful, uncertain, excited and critical, Ross' lecture firmly places Internet art in the tradition of other media like video art while acknowledging its breakaway potential. ---------------------- ||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr intro artwork ------------------------ < exhibition contexts [Intro] [from the site:] "I've been looking at this material for several years and just the fact that I've been looking puts me in a position to speak more easily than any of my colleagues, but the reality is that none of us really know. No curators, no critics really know where it is artists are taking us in this extraordinary moment. I find that quite exhilarating, a little frightening at times, primarily it's energizing. The idea of art that's developing not only in a way that we can't predict, but in this case it's hard to even understand what it looks like, what it's going to do, how it functions on a most basic social level to a complex aesthetic level, we are groping in the dark. I think that process, for strange people like me, is one I delight in." See Artwork!