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The "originality" of a work is also totally bizzare and irrelavent definition as probably the version of a popular website that one is viewing on one's home computer is a cached version in the isp's server anyway, not the "original" coming direct to you from its unique url, and for that matter urls are as easy to change as mobile phone numbers - they are only pointers to particular cordinates.
Melinda Rakham
www.subtle.net

Are you really familiar with the net in general and net servers in particular? On any Unix-like server, it's quite easy to set up a cron job that mirrors http://art.teleportacia.org every one hour or even every five minutes if you like.
To do so would be easy at least for the time being, given that most net art, in its focus on surfaces and user interfaces, runs entirely inside the client (browser) and rarely relies on server-side programmation or database backends.
Florian Cramer
userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/index.cgi

i think it is good that people send ugly things to insitutions using donate, this was one of the main intentions (i hope teleportacia gets some nice things aswell though)
Heath Bunting
irational.org

www.0100101110101101.ORG/Art.Teleportacia
Art.Teleportacia@0100101110101101.ORG

> Do you know that modern and media art museums are collecting net art?
Net.art is not meant to be collected. What they collect then is objects representing net.art.works, without the aura of it. Collecting net.art is similar to collecting moult of a snake: the snake is elsewhere.
Hellekin O. Wolf
cicv.fr

I do not think location is of much importance. The network has become a place on its own. The network _is_ the location. The physical location of the server is not all that important. It is just a funny detail. The physical location of the user might be more relevant but even she is not there when she is on the network.
Michael Samyn
zuper.com

The name Art.Teleportacia reminds me of the French expression "pret a porter". Does the name of the cyber gallery have anything to do with the works being ready to carry?
Matthew Mirapaul
nytimes.../arts@large

I think prices are much too low. I would have said 20.000$. I believe it is a disservice to sell so cheap. you've got to show those old curators that this is for real. They got to learn the hard way.
Frederic Madre
pleine-peau.com

Как на счет русскоязычных посетителей?(What about Russian speaking audience? - art.tel)
Marat Guelman
www.guelman.ru

If I was to buy something on the net, it would be art.teleportacia.org itself.
Frederic Madre
pleine-peau.com

Maybe you should try some kind of exhibition with a limited audience. People who long to own, as far as i can perceive,should like an idea of sacred, non-public admission also. One can recall "numbered" book editions, or just simply private parties of artists and richmen.
Qub
qub.com

But I think the prices are really much too high. Better to try toencourage new, young collectors, who can understand and appreciate thework, and who may already be part of the net community.
Jordan Crandall
www.blast.org

One thing I learned is that before they buy art many collectors like towatch the artist eating. I don't know why but I always knew I had a betterchance of selling something if I let them take me to dinner, usuallyItalian. I got fed, they bought, it's the way I always thought art shouldwork. Olia should have a section with animated gifs of all of them eating.
Robin Murphy
www.artnetweb.com

Sometimes it's better just to admit that you're desperate to make somemoney rather than try to turn it into an oppositional art strategy toexcuse yourself. Perhap the best thing to do would be to buy up all thenet art and burn it all in a ritual art event at a large (real) gallery.
Dr.Future
richard@dig-lgu.demon.co.uk

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