And the Gridhelix proposal is a thoughtful effort trying to produce structural homeostatic balance between both individual and collaborative initiatives.

Mr. Armagost's drollings are daring! VIVA ZAPPA(ta)!! (Hey man: do you have "Yellow Shark" in your collection of Zappa's preciosities?).

1999 Lenara's paper is, at the same time, brilliant in it's initiative to describe and praise SITO's overall project but, on the other hand, EXTREMELLY NAIVE and lacking strong theoretical basis (Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, Baudrillard, Virilio, Derrida, Zizek, among others) to produce constructive criticism.

And believe me: Ed and Jon are not corporative villains! They (and that's more than an intuition) really accept and need constructive criticism, otherwise they would have kicked me (and also a few other articipants) out of here!LOL

My main target round here is the tacit PANOPTICISM of the "artist matrix" area.

The only purpose of that paralel grid containg our acronyms is to make things easy for quick visual control: the "who-is-doing-what" surveillance routine.

This kind of easy, transparent map of articipant's activities is totally USELESS as far as ART is concerned, but extremelly USEFULL as far as CONTROL is concerned.

And it´s also totally redundant, because we can check who's doing what in the grid by simply puting the cursor over each square!

Since SITO is ART-driven and since it's so delightful to navigate thru gridcosm levels via STREAKS, i sugest (IN ADDITION to the gridhelix proposal and other sugestions to come) the abolishment of the 'artist matrix' sector!

A bigger grid (consequently with bigger squares) would create proper space for what really matters: ART ITSELF!

We must pay attention to the psychological impulses that push articipants to the unfairly taged "quilthogg" behaviour. And i'm completely sure that it's not selfishness!

Now, more than ever, i'm sure that the GRID IS GREEDY! Exactly because it's to small for our endeavours!

Bigger squares might create room for both complex individual expression and fellow collaboration! And the plastic impact of each level will certainly increase!

I'm completely sure that this is not the only solution, of course, but it takes in account our emotions (crucial part of any artistic activity and also crucial part of what brings people to visit SITO and articipate).

Emotions are the true HOLY SEED of each gridcosm level!

If inside a big square you can achieve satisfatory space to make personal statements, then i believe it would help decreasing the urge of leveljacking!

But, anyway, if we allow each other personal individual flights, then "leveljacking" turns out to be ok!

Control-freak procedures fit well in stalinist and maoist dictatorial colectivism! And these stupid ideologies are filled with demagogic/populist statements about "camaraderie" and "collaboration".

The true camaraderie here is the one that will extinguish conflict between "blenders" (people concerned with formal continuity to develop streaks) and "quilters" (people concerned with individual expression, risks, liberty and CHANCE, taking each level as an end in itself).

The exacerbation of blenders produce massificated alienation. The exacerbation of quilters produce solipsistic alienation.

We articipants are here to beat both these bad possibilities!

Heterodox partnerships against mob orthodoxy!

Otherwise, the "lazy lazy panels" rounds (and i'm refering to previous posts' discussion) will reapeat periodicaly, each time with increased anger and animosity.

REMEMBER: the grid is not perfect! No one will ever be! Then the big deal is to paticipate, to use our brains together, to have fun togheter!

By the way, "Absolutely nuthin" is an emblematic and simptomatic answer to Brisueno's question ("But what have we learned from all this?")! Emblematic in it's lazy simplicity and simptomatic in it's narcisistic pedantry!