Re: FW: Syndicate: DEMAND FOR NEW SELECTION OF VIDEONALE 9

[integer@www.god-emil.dk]

>dear darko and others,

dear andreas [zkrrr - b ku!et u]


>i can see some curators with itching fingers resisting the kind of response
>that i am going to give to justified yet difficult claims.
>
>the problem is, as you point out, the large number of submissions for
>festivals and competitions and, related to that, the limited time that
>juries have to evaluate them. sure, it would be ideal to have a jury that
>can sit for a month and watch all the tapes, explore all interactive
>projects and, even better, travel to see installations and performances. in
>this way you would still get partial, yet fairly informed jury judgements.
>it would also cost a fortune and explode most festival budgets.
>
>alternative 1 is not to have open calls but curated programmes which
>completely rely on what the curators see, like, or find interesting enough.
>very often, this system creates good, consistent programmes, yet it also
>tends to create forms of nepotism and often a lack of surprises (which you
>do not necessarily circumvent by open submissions). financially, it is
>manageable because you save money on a jury and on sending back tapes.
>
>alternative 2 is to restrict the submission of works (thematically, per
>genre, technically, age/sex/nationality of the artist, ...); however you do
>this, artists will complain that they have interesting new work which does
>not fit the categories, a fact that curators are aware of and often also
>not happy about. but what do you do with 1500 entries when you have an
>audience that expects quality evaluations? they do not want to see 600
>tapes, but 30, maybe 60. they also cannot look at 500 websites, they want
>to see 10, maybe 20 particularly good ones. and the artists in the festival
>also want the appropriate attention - we can all imagine what it is like
>when you are in a 'democratic' show with 1499 other artists ...
>
>so, what to do?


look. at least peruze all ov dze entr!ez. 
not aksez!ng dze entr!ez = shl ue sa! konduz!v 2 b!e b!e fraudulensz

vr!!endl!.nn 





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