Re: [-empyre-] the promise

["Damien Everett" <damien.everett@rmit.edu.au>]

Is it not the purpose of Art to trancend the medium in which it is based? It is an exercise in redundancy and circular meanderings to continually complain about what is... I'd really love to make a 10 dimensional planetary scupture using our solarsystem, but alas technology is currently insufficient... the closest I can come to this is VR... such a pity!

>equipment which PROMISES so much to the creator but falls 
far short because imagination is not commercially viable.
>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.)

is there anything commercially viable that did not spring from the imagination? why do these have to be mutually exclusive? 

I don't see the need to create a division between us "artist" and them "others", don't you think there is an art in writing code, and don't you think creative software developers are devoting their lives to helping enable artists to realise their imaginings? 

Some of us artists are also engineers... Leonardo Da'Vinci springs to mind.. we don't lie down and take it, we don't moan and complain about things, instead of are growing new tools and creating a "new medium" that takes us one step closer to the sublime realisation of imagination.

warm regards,
daemn