Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:47:43 -0500 (EST)
At 2:17 PM -0000 3/22/99, geert@xs4all.nl wrote:
>http://www.jodi.org is the winner of the 1999 Webby Awards in the Arts
>category. The "People's Voice" went to the site of the Dutch Design
>Institute, http://www.doorsofperception.com. The site of the Webby Awards
>does not contain any additional information, interview, comment. Is this
>the final death of net.art? The moment of final victory? Or just another
>meaningless event, expressing the rise of the society of the net.spectacle?
>Please, net.art critics, help us to interprete!
I've been thinking of printing up t-shirts with the slogan "Die techo-yuppie scum" scrawled on the front but now I think "Die ugly corporate sons-of-bitches", in Dutch, might be better. Or maybe a selection to gain more rack space on St. Marks Place.
According to a Wired News report:
Winners were careful with their five-word allotment. The biggest laugh of the night followed the speech of Jodi.org, winners in the Arts category, who snarled "Ugly corporate sons-of-bitches!" at the crowd. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/18591.phpl
Rob
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i o l a http://artnetweb.com/iola/
