As much as I complain about the non-intersection of the so-called contemporary art world and the art formerly known as new media, recently a prestigious international jury consisting of Hank Bull, executive director of Center A in Vancouver; Doryun Chong, associate curator at The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Udo Kittelman, director of the National Galleries, Berlin; Tetsuo Kogawa, artist and professor at Keizai University, Tokyo; and Barbara Vanderlinden, Belgian curator and author, selected media pioneer Robert Adrian X to split the $50,000 Nam June Paik Art Center Award with Eun-me Ahn, Ceal Floyer and Seung-taek Lee.

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Tiredly reading the newspaper this morning, scanning the list of 2009 MacArthur Fellows, jolted awake by the last listing: Camille Utterback. OMG!!

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