Christiane+Paul+questions

Christiane Paul is the author of 'Digital Art' amongst other books and papers, more details here: http://www.newschool.edu/mediastudies/faculty.aspx?id=30843

I am hoping to get some time to ask Christiane some questions on Thursday 29 or Friday 30 September at the Rewire2011 conference in Liverpool: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/?page_id=105

I know many of you have read her book so it would be great if you could add questions below and I will try and ask them.

Jonathan

Questions for Christiane Paul:
(no you can't ask what is 'digital art' - no one knows yet!)

With the ever increasing ubiquity of Web 2.0 meaning there are more cultural producers than ever before, how does she think this affects the status of artists working in digital mediums, both in what they are producing and in gaining exposure to their work?

Is everyone now an artist who uses digital mediums? (just because more people have access to technological ways of making things that doesn't necessarily mean that they are making anything good... but maybe more good things are made among the not so good things???)

Does digital art need to be contextualised to say that it is "art" rather than just "content"?

How long before modular films actually become games rather than simply imitating games through 'temporal and narrative puzzles?'

On how to sell digital artworks to collectors or galleries or museums or so on? A software gets outdated say in 10 years, how to view back an interactive project after the death of his/her author?

Is electricity going to wipe out our identity? A kid now spends more time elaborating his facebook profile than getting to know his own identity. We are projecting our minds outside. There is information to witness against us spread out in the cyberworld. Do we have the right to forget?

Our bodies seem to be extended into technology, we are not necessarily making logical choices in our interaction with technology but rather associative ones. Does this means we are accessing another side of consciousness, maybe a more intuitive side? Since the greeks, society has been built over rational and logical choices. Technology developed under that logical aura however do you think it has developed to the point of giving us now the platform to flow in a more intuitive fashion?