Syndicate: Interview Yourself!

[Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org>]

Howdy,

On nettime a couple weeks ago, some of you might have caught
the discussion of net.art history, net art history, net_art_history,
and so on. And the topic came up of the everpopular technique of
critic-interviews-net.artist, which it can be argued, helps
create a net.art.star system, whereby artists might suddenly find
themselves rising to stardom then unceremonisioulsy declared dead,
or worse, not starrified by the interview system at all. Meanwhile,
some of the critics feel rather overworked. 

And therefore, to help with it all, I proposed the automagic
"Interview Yourself" project. Since a few nettimers have in fact
responded with actual interviews, I will begin posting them
on plagiarist.org shortly.. (i.e. as soon as I get more than
5 contiguous minutes of free time.) 

So naturally I would like to open this up to more than just nettime 
readers... the whole idea is that it is open to everybody... 
net_artists, net_critics, etc., it's good clean
fun the entire family can enjoy! (And what better way to convert that
ultra-private, brooding space of internal dialogue into public netspace? 
Your head on the net!)

So, here's the gist of the original post; keep those cards and
letters rolling in and hope u have fun:

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The critics are short on time, and 
having them spend it doing interviews just creates a bunch of Art Stars 
- it's essentially a whole new Art World created in the process of 
trying to flee the old one... and look what we've got; overworked 
critics, unhappy net artists... this won't do....

I propose a new approach, as part of the Plagiarist "New Millenium 
Disorder" project: The Interview Yourself Project. Since it will 
hopefully generate lots of interviews, the acronym will be the
"IY-IY-IY-IY-IY" Project. Everyone, please interview yourself, and post 
your interview to the usual mailing lists; heck, I'll even make a whole 
website for the archives if people submit them.

Think of the benefits... it subverts the Net Art World Institution, and 
makes everyone a star.... or, uh, makes nobody a star, depending on how 
you want to look at it... it finally gives the interviewees a chance to 
answer the kinds of questions they *wish* they'd be asked about their 
work... it gives us shy people who sometimes clam up with real 
interviewers the chance to finally open up in an interview...  and, it 
saves wear and tear on critics and journalists! Concerned that the tough 
questions won't get asked? Not to worry; IY-IY-IY-IY-IY doesn't preclude 
critics from doing interviews, just sort of er, open sources the 
interview process. (I just love working "open source" in anywhere I can... )

So, hop to it everybody! (you too, critics!) you've got an interview to 
prepare - History Awaits!

-@

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