The
ten artists and artist-teams in this exhibition are neither making
work about shopping nor seeking replacement for the traditional art
dealer, but rather are investigating ideas of consumer culture, value,
ephemerality, exchange, intangibility, and that which ostensibly cannot
be for sale. Straddling the genres of performance art, web design,
net art, photography, and conceptual art, they trespass into the virtual
space of eBay's structure.
If
one primary reason for entering public space is for social exchange,
eBay is a nexus of satisfying experience, the shopping equivalent
of online dating where there is a similar jockeying for the prize
object of affection, where there are winners and losers and the price
is always negotiable. The terms of exchange are elementary - I have
an object for sale, you want it, and you can pay to have it. In the
online market, you can compete for attention without leaving the comfort
of your computer's gentle light.
~Jillian Mcdonald
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