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The WASP: Make Art (part III)

Now imagine the Internet.  And imagine Anton Vidolke.  E-flux and the French theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud – “The contemporary work of art does not position itself as the termination point of the ‘creative process’ (a ‘finished product to be contemplated) but as a site of navigation, a portal, a generator of activities.” That’s what we do in museums, right?  We have an obligation to promote this state as culture workers? Modern Painter’s article on Vidokle ( not this article ) goes on to claim, “…the contemporary transformations of influence through social networks -  a truly distributed collective --   and the concept of he commons, in which no single person has control over resources and production but shares them among peers.”  And isn’t this what we are beholden to do with our collections on-line and all the more now on-site? Vidokle says, “It’s kind of a dream that e-flux could evolve into some sort of structure like this, b...