"Be it Chaucer... or Cory Arcangel...the artist has searched for how to represent and critically examine the present" -- Great comment!

Is it just me or does Rafman's voice sound auto-tuned?

Hey Jon.... Listen.... I think it is very romantic to say that the boundaries between high and low art/culture have been broken down.... Isn't that what Warhol did... Isn't that what Koons did. In every generation, there will be an artist/wave to make that claim. I don't buy it. Uneducated Mexican bros with babies that I know, just would not get the merits in this type of art. It's impossible to be so self aware and be so naive. Therefore I think there is a clear distinction between high and low culture. I think this just follows the long tradition of Kitsch. Somtimes I think we are getting into new territory, when really it is just more of the same stuff, no matter how epic/technilogical/romantic you wan to make this time. Berlin art Critic, Jorg Heiser writes, "What you get in electronic production that fetishizes its own technological status is the setting for a leap into the unknown that turns out to harbor the sadly known." In this case, much of the work seems to revolve around the naivete and the technological status of pop-website-virtual worlds, and how this might leap us into some sort of weird future which is all virtual. Artist always want to believe they are living in like the worst time ever.... it's some kind of romantic notion or something.

I'm a theory nerd and enjoyed hearing this dimension to your work. It's very honest. Thank you.

OMG. I am tearing with wonder and fear.