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Hidden within the body of this information, about an organization, lies an artist and new ideas about art.

I apologize for neglecting to mention this before, but e-flux is one of the largest resources for contemporary art on the internet. So, if you like to feel as though you are taking part in the world by knowing what is going on with your favorite human activity, subscribe to their email alerts here.

About e-flux [straight from their 'About' page on their site]

Established in January 1999 in New York, e-flux is an international network which reaches more than 50,000 visual art professionals on a daily basis through its website, e-mail list and special projects. Its news digest – e-flux announcements – distributes information on some of the world’s most important contemporary art exhibitions, publications and symposia.

The daily digest is put together in cooperation with nearly a thousand leading international museums, art centers, foundations, galleries, biennials and art journals. Our focused and selective approach to the information we choose to distribute has been rewarded by an exceptionally high degree of attention and responsiveness from our readers.

Additionally e-flux is read by 45,000+ visual arts professionals: 47% in Europe, 42% in North America, and 11% Other (South America, Australia, Japan, etc.) 18% writers/critics, 16% galleries, 16% curators, 15% museum affiliated, 12% artists, 10% consultants, 8% collectors, 5% general.

And if these statistics aren’t convincing enough, download the following pdf essay, Daniel Birnbaum’s Temporal Spasms.

What becomes beautifully poetic about this network is the realization that e-flux is the collaborative instigation of this man: Anton Vidokle [pictured on the far right, in the image below].

Vidokle’s resume is quite staggering, if you take the time to find the pieces and place them together [and this doesn't even account for the work that I'm sure he produces, or contributes to, without taking credit]. The most admirable aspect of Vidolke’s ‘art work’ is his relative freedom from the network of institutions that is generally believed to legitimize the individual artistic practices. Vidokle, through e-flux, produces, disseminates, and critically interrogates the ideas that animate his practice and simultaneously involve everyone else’s. He can also display the evidence of this process publicly and bring together friends and collaborators to discuss and refine them. And you must also take note that Vidokle doesn’t deny the institutional systems that authorize our artistic ideas, but instead engages with them selectively, in order to confront their roles as producers in the 21st Century.

He also, charmingly enough, contributed to the inertia of education as exhibition [or art], with the project UNITEDNATIONSPLAZA in Berlin [2006-7]. Clearly, the man holds a special spot in my heart and is a valuable resource [whom will be referenced again] in the ongoing post +ART SCHOOL [CONTD.]. I look forward to meeting him, one day, and asking him to discuss the importance of [character] distinction within the field of production… namely that of art.

So, please go to their site and invest more of the collective attention that makes e-flux a behemoth of influence. Click on the following image to be carried there…

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