Re: <documenta X><blast> navigating institutional spaces
Morgan Garwood (mgarwood@inch.com)
Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:51:58 -0400
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>Both New York University and the Guggenheim Museum are engaged in
>repositioning themselves as global institutions and in the process open
>themselves up for "new media" interventions. George Soros has aknowledged
>the inevitability of these interventions and written them into the program.
>NYU and the Gugg seem to either ignore them or take protective measures,
>like the global multinational corporations they mimic.
>
sure feels like it's schism time once again : in the mid 20th century these
splits were ferociously ideological, now, late 20th century experiences
them as technological. Differences are appearing between Windows thinkers
and Java thinkers, and that's not quite the cutting edge. Paleothink is
organized around a high density of face to face encounters; meetings, doing
lunch, guest listings, posing skills, political smarts, Washington D.C.
mentality; complex structures of alliegance, funding, education, theory
generation, public relations, good cops and bad cops played by D'Amato and
Moynihan or whoever you want, who gets to say what the *distinctions* are,
what shall not even be alluded to god forbid discussed, what the press
shall repetitively mention, what the press shall develop amnesia towards...
Neothink lacks the emotional, intellectual, structural bonds to all of the
above, although may be fully aware of them. Paleothink shall not give up a
cubic centimeter of its perogative without a struggle to the death,
Neothink is more taoist, tai-chi like, where you attack it isn't, where you
ignore, it is... Sun-tzu would love this....
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