I don’t have time to go into depth just this moment, but I think we
will find some commonalities in 1) Geert [Lovink] on
info-overload, 2) Kierkegaard’s ostensibly conservative alarmism about
the newspaper, and 3) Alexandre Singh’s comments last night, which to
the company in that room may have been received as iconoclastic (at
least to a chuntering Joel Holmberg), although I think Singh was
getting at something else: not only that we shouldn’t *uncritically*
associate new technology with an imagined avantgardness, but that
artists should be willing to complicate the underlying sentiments that
may frame a show like Free (taking Lawrence Lessig’s book as
a main point of departure) by intentionally looking away, and
not towards, the dominant strategies and technologies used by most of
the artists in the show to reinforce or serve to illustrate those very
sentiments.

Free association illustrations:

candid image of Regine debatty

Alexander de Cadenet - The Thinker - 2008

Bo Bartlett - History Lesson