[Boston-editorial] art?

[TL]

I fully support keeping it up. On purely mechanical
grounds there isnt anything clearly forbidding such
work at least from what I understand. You are right
Matt that its hard to argue that this is news (though
I can so clearly picture some easily hateable,
dim-headed, quasi-free spirit, pretentious, art-school
student questioning "well what is... news?") That said
I personally feel that, not only should we support
this sortof thing, but that absent the clearly defined
policy that would reject art like this than we really
are swimming in dangerous waters when we start
'censoring' what is acceptable art and what isnt. I
mean this stuff in question has no defined intention
though I can definitely see the possible political
undertones (no more than I can see undertones of of
personal salvation and eroticism) I mean sure labeling
it is fine god-forbid someone accidently clicks on a 
page they x right out of. As the site is now I do
think that this is a murky issue and mabye when the
site is reconfigured we work with it more clearly but
I totally am for more stuff like this when or if we
can fit it in more comfortably. Ive seen it on other
IMCs and I think if applied properly can only be good
in terms of providing more variety and broadening our
range of viewers as well as give fuller definition to
the term "Indy-Media". Obviously we're not a venue for
paintings of cigar-smoking dogs playing pool or
lust-driven poetry about middle-school english
teachers but this is something I think we should
definitely address as as an organization......
-TL     




--- Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was thinking maybe that we could just put "ART" in
> the title of the post so that people who click in
> know its not going to be an article, which is
> probably what they expect to see or want to see.  If
> we do that I think it should stay, this ones already
> fallen off though so it doesn't matter too much.
>  
> -Pete
>  
> 
> 
> Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As long as he doesn't overdo it, I like it fine.
> Maybe
> he wants to promotes his skills to the community.
> 
> best,
> sofia
> --- Matthew Williams wrote:
> > Someone has posted his artwork to our newswire:
> > 
> >
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34686/index.php
> >
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34685/index.php
> >
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34684/index.php
> > 
> > Is this something we want to leave up? I'm
> genuinely
> > not sure. It 
> > doesn't fit the definition of news any way you cut
> > it, but he does seem 
> > to intend his art to have a political message. If
> we
> > want to be a 
> > general media resource for people, should we allow
> > them to use our 
> > newswire to distribute their artwork? Is this
> > something most people 
> > will just regard as cluttering the newswire and an
> > annoyance?
> > 
> > I guess my take is we should hide it, but in
> > designing the new website, 
> > we might want to think about ways to accomodate
> this
> > sort of thing. 
> > People post political flyers that would probably
> > better fit on an 
> > "artwire" or something better than on the
> newswire,
> > so it wouldn't just 
> > be for something like this.
> > 
> > -- Matt
> > 
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