Murph the Surf wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about the possibilities of an "ambient museum" rather
> than a "virtual museum" lately. That term strikes me as much more in
> sync with the Internet as well as the goals of the AAM. Below is part of
> a project we're working on with Ebon Fisher and the growing DIY (as the
> New York Times Magazine dubbed it) cultural movement in New York right
> now.
> --murph
>
> ORGANISM: THE BROOKLYN WEB JAM
>
> Notes by collaborators on an ambient event
> from the Spring of 1993 compiled by Ebon Fisher.
>
> The meeting notes, diary entries, and fax transmissions
> pertaining to a Brooklyn experiment in bionic partying.
> Many of the individuals who helped create, or
> crossed paths with, the Organism, have continued to
> push the way forward into a more participatory,
> "post-ironic" aesthetic.
>
> In the artnetweb READINGS area:
> http://artnetweb.com/organism/

I'd appreciate definitions for "ambient event," "bionic partying" (does that mean a chat room?),
"the Organism," and especially "post-ironic"!

Excuse me, but I don't think all this arty jargon is going to attract many people who aren't "in"
in the art world.  And that's *not* what we want for our Web site, or for any "virtual" (or
"ambient"?) museum we might eventually set up!

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Janis Beth Wilkens
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Museum of York County
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