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<p>Hello Patrick! I am Emily Vey Duke--I will be a guest on Empyre in a couple of weeks. I wonder if you could cite the study about the internet and attention. I missed it (because, I suppose, the internet), and I would love to take a look.</p>
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<p>Thanks to all for the lively and moving thoughts.</p>
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Pronouns: she/her/hers<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au <empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Patrick Lichty <pl@voyd.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:15:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'soft_skinned_space'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [-empyre-] Elegies and Resonances</font>
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<div class="PlainText">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Hi.<br>
Good to be back.<br>
I'm just back from Turkey with my new wife, Negin Ehtesabian-Lichty, who I<br>
met as national team leaders for Morehshin Allahyari's "My Day/Your Night"<br>
project between the US-Iran seven years ago. As we wrestle with our eventual<br>
return to the USA given Trump's idiocy, I am glad to begin to return to the<br>
discursive fora.<br>
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I love the conversations that have been going on, and I regret having only<br>
brief contact with a couple of the artists we are talking about this month,<br>
and much more with some like Beatriz de Costa. All amazing people.<br>
<br>
This gives me pause for thinking about the fact that the elegies for the<br>
dead will not end in the foreseeable future, and the memories that are<br>
shared are deeply moving. I think even more so, as I am staring at 60 in a<br>
few years, and I see the radical transformation of communities like Rhizome<br>
in the past 15 years. <br>
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As I think about beginning tomorrow, I think memory and community is<br>
something that is running in shorter supply as the Internet develops. Scale<br>
increases, allowing for less attention, and as in a recent study, community<br>
is dwindling in the age of the postinternet. I think that what the artists<br>
we have been discussing have done so well is perhaps not immediate community<br>
in body, but in thought. Being tangential to the Fluxus Movement, I remember<br>
Carolee and her powerful spirit well, and her sheer vulnerability through<br>
works like Internal Scroll and Infinity Kisses.<br>
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But in many ways, I see the will to the Contemporary, especially here in the<br>
UAE as not hospitable to many of the gestures that our remembered artists<br>
did. I'm wondering about the ideas of bleeding memory through time and<br>
finding ways for continuity in times when we are accelerating, especially in<br>
ephemeral environments like Second Life, which I imagine will be a memory in<br>
ten years.<br>
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I look forward to considering what knowledge we can build community around<br>
as the digital seems to be ever faster and more fragmented.<br>
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