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Dispatx Art Collective is a curatorial platform for the development and presentation of contemporary art and literature. Make is a showcase for work in progress related to the current theme, Appropriation in Creative Practice. Projects are developed online via integrated documentation tools allowing artists to post regular updates to their work in a continuous investigation of the creative method.

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Our Futural Mend

2009.09.21 14:54
by David Stent | in Theme for Thought

The previous post got me thinking about the current state of Dispatx, specifically in relation to the last issue (forthcoming) and the possibility of something 'other' emerging from its ashes. Considering the transitory state the site currently finds itself in - kept ticking over, just barely, through occasional entries by editors - it could be that there is a paradoxical danger of seeing the moribund site as being more fertile than it really is, or in some way misreading its potential. The reason I was thinking about this was that the previous post - with its references to gym shootings and postmortem forgiveness - made me think of a specific piece of writing by Gilles Deleuze. When discussing his thoughts on what he calls "pure immanence", Deleuze makes reference to a scene in Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend, in which a reviled man is lying on his deathbed. However, the unpopular man's proximity to death reveals to those that attend him some other essential quality, quite apart from his personality, a quality toward which they start to respond with respect and love. Deleuze writes that "between [the man's] life and [the man's] death there is a moment that is no longer anything but a life playing with death. The life of an individual had given way to an impersonal and yet singular life that disengages a pure event freed from the subjectivity and objectivity of what happens. A homo tantum ['only life'] with whom everyone sympathises, and who attains a kind of beatitude (...) a life of pure immanence, neutral, beyond good and evil.” It is perhaps wishful thinking to associate the Dispatx platform, in its current, near-dormant state, with such a potential-laden, un-individuated singularity, but could there be way to think about the potential for something

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Celebrate Good Times. Come On. 2009.08.05 21:28
by Oliver Luker | in Theme for Thought

Dispatx Art Collective : Curatorial Platform

What makes a man good? How might we honour him?

I have slept alone for over 20 years. Last time I slept all night with a girlfriend it was 1982. Proof I am a total malfunction.

Michael Jackson,

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Dispatx Festschrift 2009.08.03 05:06
by David Stent | in Theme for Thought

Dispatx Art Collective : Curatorial Platform

I had an idea for a theme when halfway through Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Written two years before his death, the book consists of ten walks made in and around Paris - wanderings that serve

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Show Finished Work

Show presents high-quality finished projects organized by theme. Intelligent algorithms organise and deliver the content in a linear narrative based on combined visitor interaction. All projects may be added to private collections in My Dispatx - providing a unique and personalised content experience.

The Arts
by Robert Fitterman
theme Appropriation in Creative Practice

It's Like Being In a Movie
by Emanuel Licha
theme Eminent Domain

You Know, The Thing
by Chris Mann
theme The Plague of Language

Back to Benin
by Uriel Orlow
theme Eminent Domain

Dispatx is a curatorial platform providing the tools of a socialised internet for the development and presentation of contemporary art and literature.

In Make we show the work in progress of selected projects exploring the current theme. The Studio, a laboratory for creation and documentation, allows the artist to update their work. In Show we present the finished projects alongside given submissions.

All finalised content can be added to private collections in My Dispatx, providing a personalised content experience.

In this short tour we will show you how you can interact with the artists, create private collections, make and organize your tags, and investigate over 100 projects immediately available to you.

Ongoing projects related to the theme in exploration are developed by collaborating artists in the Studio and can be browsed immediately in Make.

The current theme in exploration is Eminent Domain - seventeen projects have been selected and their progress can be seen by clicking on Make.

Users are invited to converse directly with the artists and other Dispatx users via comments and threaded discussions. In this way, you become a part of the artists' creative method - the organizing process that translates creative vision into creative product.

The projects are developed online for five months and are then published in as a finished edition in Show, where we show the finished project together with its development. At the same time, we also publish selected submissions related to the theme.

Content in Show is presented as a linear narrative - constantly running genetic algorithms analyse your behaviour and show the projects in the order most likely to appeal. Adding descriptive tags allows you to move in and out of this order, creating your own individual narrative.

Clicking on the My Dispatx icon mydx icon at any time allows you to customize your content experience by creating and browsing personal content collections. Clicking on the tag icon allows you to interact with available content, creating your own archives and establishing new links between the projects.

Managing your collections is as simple as moving items from the queue to a given collection. Refreshing the schematic shows you how the projects that you've added link to others, allowing you to make new discoveries about the relationships between the different projects.

With over three thousand pages of available content, your collection will update in real time and can be browsed with a single click.

All your tags and comments can be managed through My Dispatx, giving you immediate access to the content you've chosen.

In order to allow you to focus on the content, we've provided detailed RSS feeds for every aspect of the website. From the seventeen Make projects investigating Eminent Domain, to a single project and comments for a single item - we've even provided a feed for you to keep track of responses to your comments.

These free tools are one step away - all you need to do is sign up with your email address and a password, and you'll have access to thousands of pages of artistic content by artists from all over the world.