Re: [-empyre-] the promise

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Hello Aurelia, Josephine etal.

Why am I surprised at this conversation -- perhaps because I thought we all
understood that we are working at the beginning of something --in a medium
(or system?) whose purposes, function, and promise has yet to be clarified.
(Artists like that, don't they?) And one that may never get defined by us
because definition sets boundaries and this seems to me to be more about
process ... the fixed works by individual artists rather more of a
carry-over than a direction for the future.

I say keep on chugging and don't throw anything away until you're absolutely
sure you don't want it -- then leave it around for the next creative person
to play with..  

-- Helen Thorington

 


on 2/17/02 6:22 AM, Auriea Harvey at a@e8z.org wrote:

>> 
> 
> 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.
> 
>