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Re: Censorship issues
Good heavenly days, Gary, what the heck IS the image now that you have all
of us wondering? If it is too taboo, email me off list. Inquiring minds
want to know...
Chris
> Placing the image on the internet may be more fraught with danger then
> displaying it in a gallery. This relates to the other part of this
> discussion on the context in which the image is viewed. People are much
> more ready to label images on the internet as 'pornographic' then if the
> same image was in an art setting. The internet is notorious for
pornography
> and in that venue we as artists have to constantly legitimize our work as
> being art and not pornography. Also with the internet's vaster market,
the
> images could be used for pornographic purposes. These types of things
would
> not happen in a gallery. Also, there are lots of internet watchdogs out
> there and I think that it would be a short time before they came after me,
> or you as the webmaster, and had you remove the image. I have my own
> website under construction, and I toyed with the idea of putting the image
> there while the rest of the show is up in the gallery. But then all the
> problems that I mentioned above could/would occur. Thanks for the offer.
>
> Gary Miller
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