A culture of networks

Abstract

[Extract] The professional world of the contemporary media artist is a very fractured and multi-layered sphere. One cannot rely solely on the representation of galleries, the management of PR reps or the negotiation skills of agents and business partners alone. The new media artist must engage in a range of skills that are both shared and broadcast beyond the confines of its medium. They resist the specificity of the past as their tools of this operation merge and interchange while their audiences fragment across geographic and cultural lines. The contemporary media artist must operate in an environment that is of itself a cultural form: The Network.