Re: [-empyre-] time again

["melinda rackham" <melinda@unsw.edu.au>]

ive just been talking about this..- well.. not time specifically but
linearity and  dimensionality,  at the consciousness reframed conference in
perth.au  last week - about what it means when  the web compacts geography,
space, time etc,by making everything binary and available at the instant
click of a hyperlink...  and i tend to agree that  the end of geography is
an illusion , just as fluid identity and multiple locality are,. I find the
way contemporary socitey always thinks it is the first to discover
something, to reach radicall new positions,  sort of irritating   - im sure
that people of other times and cultures had very rich
interdimensional/geographical/intellectual experiences thru both thier
heightened sensory immersion in thier immediate locality, and their
spiritual beliefs which shifted them into other planes of being thinking
feeling... Its  merely a different rhythm of time/space that we get used to
on the net, when information space is 2dimensional....  flat ,  or shallow
as olliver dyens was talking about when he was a guest earlier this year,

time and timing is sort of pivotal for me ... the "wait"which used to be an
important function of net art - has mostly disappeared in that tech upgrade
quest for seamlessness ...  its interesting norrie is talking about slowing
interaction down , as i too sort of regret loosing that sense of
expectation of what will fill a gap,  that exquisite capsule of {time space}
which created a really easy to use tension in web  work..

now  i'm trying to work out  how jumping into 3d networked space (rather
than 2d hyperlinked space) on  fat connections changes those relationships
even further..  what sort of rhythm and tension comes out of that ..

melinda



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Cubitt" <seanc@waikato.ac.nz>
To: <empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: [-empyre-] time again


> One thing I wanted to murmur about here is time: the proliferation of
> different times . There's the time of sending, the time of reading
> and the time of replying on a list. There's the time of designing,
> updating, revising and uploading pages and sites. Norie Neumark,
> speaking here in Hamilton a few days back, talked about slowing down
> interaction time, encouraging a savouring of the time of the work.
> There are times of content too, futures, nostalgias, erasures and
> rememorations, memories of times you never lived through.
>
> Virilio is probably right in a certain sense to say we live not at
> the end of history but at the end of geography; except that that 'we'
> speaks of those who do live 'after' geography, not the poor bastards
> who are condemned to live in it. Like probably everyone on this list,
> I can move cheerfully across most borders: John Howard is far from
> alone in making that a far more difficult and Real task for others.
> (I've been to reality - you wouldn't like it there)
>
> Time, history, remains. More than that, it has become a raw material
> for making.
>
> s
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