Re: [-empyre-] the promise

[Auriea Harvey <a@e8z.org>]

>

Josephine Bosma wrote:

> The above seems to me like you are still a believer.

oh yes. shooting the messenger doesn't have to mean giving up on the 
medium... quite the opposite in my view actually. it is the ultimate 
in hope.

> Be careful not to
> look for too much escape in technical wonders or miracles of design.


- "be careful what you wish for" is always good advice. now if only i 
saw a few technical wonders && miracles of design.

- its just that i for one wish that "speed" and "ease of use" were 
not the most popular benchmarks for advancement in consumer 
technologies. this is the capitalist problem.

- in many ways i do agree that the most immersive thing online is 
text. but reading on a screen hurts my eyes and irony doesn't 
translate well enough in text alone.


> Flexibility, adaption, abuse and de/reconstruction are just as
> important.

computers/commercial software are not made for artists (at all). by 
very definition artists use of computers is an adaptaion, a 
de/reconstruction (a perversion.)

therefore, abuse is important but is abuse all there is ?

pointing out in ones work that one is adapting, de/re/constructing 
computers/software/the network is an exercise in redundancy.


i wish i was born an engineer.

> (that code, that criticism, that
>  art, that world, that promise, that hope) !

same thing we do every day, j......

warmly, yesyesyes,
Auriea.



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