Looking for coherence.

Gentlemen,
It is my considered opinion that we require a concious effort to apply a more rigourous structure or at least some continuity of interaction and response concerning our creative endeavours here at The Square & the Cross.

We have so far I would argue, as individuals, responded to the site very much in the nature of what would normally be expected of a blog published on the internet. In a fairly random fashion we've been posting images and texts that relate to our seperate artistic practices. This in itself is fine as it has to some degree introduced us to eachother and allowed for some intuitive journeys to begin. We should continue to do this as it allows for feedback and supportive interactions which are vital to the learning process and for me anyway are an essential ingredient of the artistic imperative.

But these dialogues must lead us somewhere. In this particular exercise I want us to use the tools we have available to create a piece that stands on it's own two feet. What is the Square & the Cross? What is it for, what can it do and what can we do with it? What are the implications for using the internet to make and disseminate art? Just having a website dosn't inherantly mean that one becomes more visible. We gotta tell people about it, spread the word. We need to find ways of bringing an audience to our work. Linking to other websites (and having them link to us) Using email and word of mouth and putting up posters and flyers will go someway towards this.

OK, so what do we want people to find when they get here? Just a bunch of art students posting a journal (albeit a fractured one) or something they can interact with. It must be fun and/or thought provoking. In part using links to other websites to create an art resourse is a useful and interesting aspect, making tsatc into a hub and perhaps the idea that logging onto a particular site and following links is a creative journey, one of discovery and surprise. We all know what it's like to get lost in cyberspace!

One approach we could take is to post images and other works and challenge eachother to create new work in response (essentially a game of Chinese Whispers) Following threads such as this could lead to some new places.

Well, I'm gonna think about these things some more over the next coupla days and it may be that given time constraints we won't really achieve our aims (whatever they turn out to be) So expect more posts and post more posts and we'll just see what happens.

Tarra fer now.

x
s.artbeast