Attention all Net Artists and Net Art Enthusiasts

*korporat fasc!zt net art questionnaire!*

Brian Goldfarb recently said, in a post to Teo Spiller's Net.Art Trade
Forum (http://www.teo-spiller.org/forum): "But perhaps what we will see
is the education of a new type of sponsor–likely a sort of corporate
representative rather than a collector. To loosen their wallets we need
a more extensive intellectual apparatus. Net.art.historians/~theorists
are essential to the development of a market."

On 7-11, under the subject header: "the commercialisation of net art",
Kalx wrote: "no".

If I asked f1f0@m9ndfukc.com about this, it would definitely call me a
korporat fasc!zt nancy - which I probably am. But then, aren't we all.

Despite all of the above, I am writing a piece for _Science as Culture_
magazine on the political economy of net art and I'm trying to collect
some facts and opinions regarding the 'C' word of net art. If you'd like
to help, please could you answer some or all of the questions below, and
mail them back to me or to RHIZOME or (preferably) both.

Please and thank you

p.s. If you help me, I'll definitely include you in the net.art show
I'll be curating in 2002 for the Whitney Museum ;)

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1) How do you currently support your net art practice?

2) Do you believe that commercialisation is having an adverse effect on
net art?

- If so, what are the determining characteristics of net art that are
being compromised?

3) Is there something like a discrete net art object which can be bought
or sold?

4) Does the sale of a piece of net art necessarily alter the work in and
of itself?

5) Do you believe that institutions should get involved in the
preservation of "classic" net art works?

6) Is obsolescence an inherent characteristic of net art?

7) To your knowledge, what is the highest price ever fetched for a piece
of net art? What was the artwork in question?

8) How do you see the privatisation of the Internet affecting net art?

9) Do you consider the Internet to be a public or private sphere?

10) How does your answer to question 9 influence your opinions about the
State's responsibility toward funding net art?

11) How important has the Open Foundation's patronage been to net art's
development?

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