thoughts by michiel   Like many of you did till now, I will share my thoughts about this competition. Let's start with the first item "competition". Art is not about winning or losing, but about sharing your 'insides'. If someone likes it or not is not the point, its all about your personal angle and sometimes you reach one other human being, in most cases you won't, that's what its all about. Almost everybody on this globe has a meaning about 11/6, we are all affected. But artists have the capacity to give a broader view on the subject, put it on an other level than mourning or memorizing it. We all do mourn, don't misunderstand me! Secondly the title of this project is 'netart'. What netart is, is subject of discussion, which is a good thing. For me netart is something different than having an exhibitions in a gallery or a museum. The medium netart has specific qualities which other mediums doesn't have. A lot of what you see on the internet about art can be qualified as "documentary": its an image of a work of art that exists in real life like a painting, photograph, sound or a sculpture. Nothing offensive about that but its not 'netart'. Its a way of sharing works made in real life with other people using the medium 'internet', a document of a work of art. But when using the medium 'netart' as a new way of communication, you'll have to deal with the specific aspects of the medium. To be more specific, works created with the computer are not by nature netart. The machine just helped you to create something, like you use a camera to create an image. In netart 'the machine' is part of the work itself. It can't exist without. Compare it with a book where you have to turn over a page to now how things will continue. You are literally asked to participate not just sit there and watch it like the tv. In netart the computerscreen is the final product and you will have to click or listen to reveal the whole work. Static pieces of work are not the case in netart. These thoughts came up viewing the submissions. regards, l\/lichiel Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 at 17:00

Re^1: thoughts by Ansgard Thomson   Sorry Michiel I highly recommend that you and all other artists read the entrance reqirements for this competion re:cathegories http://art.by.arena.ne.jp/mcmogatk/2002/procedures.html it does not indicate that digital art as a still,that exist only on the internet in a digital code does "not qualify" Artists like me who communicate on the Internet from there personal websites might use many different forms of communicating including having virtual galleries ,webart,animations and more. I have been a judge before and what I learned was that judging means discriminating .I made my decision very fast from my first strong impression of the works related to 9.11.and ignored the resume of the artists. I might add that a virtual museum I had in mind ,when I selected the works . happy judging to all Ansgard Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 at 18:00