It could be construed as that indeed.
All institutions whether governmental or not deal with agency, the USDAT Is a good example. But in nearly all cases there is a clear distinction between those who organize and those who produce art. An interesting example is artist Anton Vidokle's e-flux magazine, a commercial entreprise that generates funding for art projects. Although there too there is distinction.
Thestatofmind project can be thought of a relational space that includes its orientation and underlying discourse, meaning the project hasn't been planned in a previous stage and then put to action. All the people that have had to relate to the project had have decisions to make and have therefore contributed to the project's becoming. People are therefore acting as process nodes in an ongoing thought process with respect to the issues and questions that launched the whole process.
More simply said: instead of putting objectives relating to values or positions (answers or attitudes that are prior to the project and that condition its development and heading), thestateofmind has been born of questions and problematics, and its purpose of existence is creating collaborative dialectics from those questions, and issues.
Instead of reaching consensus as in social networks, the project is creating dissensus, and that leaves open dialectical possibilities.
G. H. Rabbath
On 11 juin 2011, at 20:36, yasmin_discussions-request@estia.media.uoa.gr wrote:
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> i am having trouble wtih the concept of art agency but
> when i googled "art agency' our yasmin discussion is now
> in the top ten links..is this an action ?
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> meanwhile the discussion has reminded me of the work of artist randall
> packer when he set up the US departement of art and technology
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> http://www.usdat.us/archives/index_home.html
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> The US Department of Art & Technology promotes media art, cultural
> growth, the artist voice in reshaping public policy, and improved
> aesthetic standards for all Americans by working in partnership with
> business, universities, communities and art schools to:
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> ? Build for the future and promote U.S. competitiveness in the global
> art marketplace by strengthening and safeguarding the nation's
> cultural infrastructure;
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> ? Insure that the artist as visionary, as social revolutionary, has
> voice in the national dialogue;
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> ? Confront corporate control of mass media;
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> ? Keep American media art competitive with cutting-edge science and
> technology through an unrivaled information base;
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> ? Provide effective management and stewardship of the nation's
> cultural resources and assets in the field of art and technology to
> ensure sustainable artistic opportunities.
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> The Department of Art and Technology touches the daily lives of
> Americans in many ways -- it makes possible the utopian principles
> that transform our existence; it facilitates technology that artists
> use in the studio every day; it supports the development, gathering
> and transmitting of information essential to the virtualization of
> Government systems; it makes possible the diversity of artists and
> artworks found in America's (and the world's) galleries and museums;
> and it supports revolutionary doctrines for the communities in which
> Americans live.
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> http://www.usdat.us/archives/index_home.html
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> roger
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