I don't have a problem with your creative use of language. I mean, how
else do you describe half the things that go on in Cyberworld. I think
people must be very confused about just what the term 'elitist' describes.
I will be in NYC from sept 21 to 25. Is there a DIY open that you'd
recommend? I read the piece in the timesmag too -- sounds vital and
exciting -- and it's happening everywhere. I'll be showing in a furniture
store next month.

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Mark Nielsen
Exhibit Designer/Preparator
University of Michigan Museum of Art
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, 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/
>
> --
> ROBBIN MURPHY, creative director, artnetweb
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> 426 Broome Street, NYC 10013  212 925-1885
> WORK: http://artnetweb.com/murph/work/
>