tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12651507.post-55216368785182783332008-04-17T12:46:00.000-07:002008-04-17T12:47:02.809-07:00<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">from Suzanne Stein:</span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" id="yiv499343856"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Dear Poets All,</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Many of you know that a few months ago I was hired into a new position at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1208461402_0">SFMOMA</span>, and that one of my tasks was to build, launch, &amp; choreograph a blog. What I proposed to do, and what I was subsequently hired to do, was to launch a blog not only on behalf of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1208461402_1">SFMOMA</span> per se, but on behalf of and driven by the collection of individuals outside and inside the museum. My first intention has always been to find a way to build a space which could function as a multidirectional portal between the local communities inside and outside or around the museum, and to find ways to make those communities visible and LEGIBLE to each other.</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">The obvious thing here is that a blog is in no small part a TEXT operation. There’s a COMMENT BOX. And I am now and will be into the future looking for collaborators, respondents, guest bloggers, commentators, writers, instigators. The focus will be on the super local—who lives, works, thinks, produces here in the Bay Area—but this email is reaching some of you also quite far away. Everyone is welcome and desired.</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Please help populate and write into the space. Tell me what you want to do and see, what you like, and what should change. The blog is and will be a collective enterprise---</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blog.sfmoma.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">www.blog.sfmoma.org</span></span></a></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Let everybody know</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">xxxooo</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">ss<br /><br /></span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">ps. we named it OPEN SPACE<br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">pps So far it's not that kind to Internet Explorer 6, use firefox, safari, or internet explorer 7 if you can</span></span></div></div>artifact reading serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265222119719560324noreply@blogger.com