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The Bob Jones Biennial
by Logan Hill

3:00 a.m. Mar. 25, 2000 PST

   

NEW YORK -- Thanks to the radical online agitprop collective RTMark, the websites for the Cockettes, ourfirstanalsex.com, and the Preacher's Corner at Bob Jones University all made the Whitney Biennial 2000 website.

Mayor Rudy Giuliani, compared to Nazis in Hans Haacke’s ham-fisted exhibition "Sanitation," has not yet made a statement.


    



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RTMark, one of nine official Biennial Internet art selections, decided to thank artists by "passing on its Whitney Biennial 'real estate' to any artist who wants it." URLs submitted to show@rtmark.com will rotate throughout the day on the special RTMark Whitney exhibition space, which is what visitors will see when linking from Whitney.org.

The collective directs visitors to a special Whitney frontdoor instead of the group's usual frontdoor.

There, a statement from RTMark reads: "Being included in the Whitney Biennial touches us deeply, reflecting as it does the warm enthusiasm of many within the American art world. We didn't need the reminder."

In what The New York Times has described as "the most uncontroversial Biennial in years," RTMark's mischievous play has been one of the exhibit’s few surprises.

Dozens of small artist sites have already been "included" in the Biennial, but RTMark guests have also submitted a number of joke sites.

Now Bob Jones Unversity, a Backstreet Boys webzine, France Telecom, and the Frank T. Borman Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona, all can say that they have been in the Whitney Biennial.

Scott Weiland, a New York-based art critic, said RTMark has demonstrated the difficulty of including Web-based works in any sort of canon.

"We're talking about an unprecedented taxonomic nightmare here," Weiland said. "I wouldn't want the task of revising the next 'Dictionary of Art Terms.'"


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