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Comment by Garrett Lynch on October 25, 2011 at 11:30am

Response from Artreview about the petition against censorship on user profiles has not been forthcoming. 

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/artreview-isp-censorship/

Artreview have been informed of the petition by email and recorded delivery letter which they accepted so we now know they are aware of this.  It seems Artreview care very little about this issue or the concerns of their community, at least not enough to have the courtesy to form a statement and update their community, an update they promised in the initial announcement.  Active members who are genuinely concerned about this now have two choices:

1) Increase the pressure on Artreview to make some statement;
2) Or more severely to pull out of Artreview, after all without members Artreview won't have a community.

If you chose the former I have made the letter sent to Artreview available online for anyone to download, sign with their details and post to Artreview in London.  Here it s in .doc and .rtf formats:

http://www.asquare.org/artreview/artreview-letter.doc
http://www.asquare.org/artreview/artreview-letter.rtf

The latter is and should be your personal choice.

Comment by Garrett Lynch on October 1, 2011 at 9:44pm

Members, I have now formally forwarded the petition on censorship to Artreview.com as an email (below).  If no response is received I will also forward the petition by post.  Hopefully we will have a positive respond soon.

 

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Dear Artreview.com

As a representative of a number of members of the artreview community, subscribers to the magazine and users of the website, I would like to draw your attention to a petition objecting to the censorship of our art dictated by your ISP as stated in your community announcement of the 6th of September 2011.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/artreview-isp-censorship/

We feel that this is yet another example of creative expression suppressed by the rules and regulations of corporate institutions and does not reflect or demonstrate understanding of the long traditions, histories and well established thematic and theoretic concerns of art.  Nudity in art has, is and will continue to be a subject matter of significant importance which reflects many of the concerns of the human condition.  We feel that it is poor form that you, a well established contemporary art magazine who itself has supported cutting edge and sometimes controversial art are allowing your provider to dictate what is 'acceptable' art and surprised that you have not considered how this issue might be dealt with as your online community grew. 

We understand that you have a contractual relationship with your ISP who regulate use of its servers and will be unlikely to effect change of their policies and so request that you consider changing your ISP to a more art community friendly provider rather than censor and possibly stunt what is a blossoming community.  In addition we request a statement from Artreview.com confirming how this issue is being resolved and as indication of support for artists' rights, your community members, to choose their modes of expression.

We hope that this petition will be seen by you as it is intended, an indication of concern on your community members part and that you will protect your constituency.

Sincerely
Garrett Lynch

Comment by Garrett Lynch on September 7, 2011 at 7:44pm

In response to Artreviews community announcement of user content censorship on the 6th of September I have created an online petition to gauge interest in how the community feel about this.  To read the full details of the email (you have by now most likely received a copy of this in your email) and sign the petition point your browser to:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/artreview-isp-censorship/

Please forward this to lists, family, friends, colleagues etc.

regards
Garrett

Comment by Larry Caveney on August 7, 2011 at 3:30pm

Art as Public Service
How does art find its ways into the public? Pop art reflects the vernacular as a familiar or point of entry to the masses, that being the viewing audience; but what about the integration of the artist into the public as the servant? Your own public services and how does that idea work within the art making practice? Who is qualified (in our society) to offer a public service? How does one qualify a publi...c service? This is a call for all forms of art that examines the possibility of artist as servant/public/ service. As example (only one example) see video of this idea:
http://www.artreview.com/v​ideo/supermansafety-crossi​ng
Send materials to:
Garage Gallery
4141 Alabama Street #4
San Diego, Ca, 92104
For video work send PAL format via “yousendit” https://www.yousendit.com/​semlp_branded_pro?s=21214&​s_kwcid=TC|23235|SendFile||S|e|12440​224291
To deepseal2@aol.com
Also send statement of intent and bio.
Deadline: 10/29/2011
Selected work will be exhibited 02/18/2012

Comment by Jenny Lifeofmeaning on June 30, 2011 at 11:11am

 

My experimental short on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/21846846

Comment by Larry Caveney on December 30, 2009 at 5:18pm

Find more videos like this on artreview.com

Comment by Larry Caveney on November 23, 2009 at 12:43am

Find more videos like this on artreview.com

Comment by Netherlands Media Art Institute on April 3, 2009 at 7:02am

Dear all, The Netherlands Media Art Institute is 30 years old! We're going to celebrate that with a long weekend full of discussions, visual art and technology on May 8, 9 and 10. We raise a glass to the future, and invite everyone to join us in thinking about the art of tomorrow, about media art and digital culture in all shapes and varieties. What fundamental changes are heading our way as a result of technological innovation? What influence is the digital environment of tomorrow having on art and artists today? And what does all this mean for an institute like the Netherlands Media Art Institute? Please see our program on http://www.nimk.nl and if you are in Amsterdam please visit us!
Or tell us how you fell in love with media art: http://www.facebook.com/pages/How-I-fell-in-love-with-media-art/710...

Comment by Hector Canonge on November 2, 2008 at 2:46am

Hello Everyone-

After a hiatus due to other demanding projects and responsibilities, I am back with many more projects to share. Expect more to come in the following months.

HC

Comment by AVI ROSEN on October 7, 2008 at 4:10pm

“Just do it" or Just Du et- exchange video project, by william Brovelli and Avi Rosen. We are warmly welcoming participation of others. Please use our video as head shots to extend this project. You can Comment on our videos by posting your video. We hope this project will start global viral artistic MeMe.
william Brovelli -
http://www.youtube.com/user/williambrovelli
Avi Rosen -
http://www.youtube.com/user/ephemeral8
just do it #1

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