RHIZOME and SHOCK lists are full of the frustrations and disappointments
of some new media artists with the "established" art world. While I have
been surprised and exhausted by the naivete and partisanship on SHOCK,
there is no denying that the scene for new media artists in the US and
elsewhere can be bleak. What to do?

RHIZOME was recently in Berlin at a conference called "Net, Art and the
Public: Mediation Strategies of Net Art." It was terrific to see the new
work of Alexei Shulgin, Blank and Jeron, Richard Sch