Re: [-empyre-] last few thoughts: promises

[Deanne_cg2 <deanne@crankygirl.com>]

[n.b. my apologies if this is a double, but looks like my1st try didn't go
through ]

>>NetArt is the quintessential dematerialized phenomenon : it has no shape, no
boundaries, and no physical form. It floats on our screens, like a ghost,
present but immaterial. One cannot possess NetArt works, one cannot own it,
exclusively. One can only know about it and share it with others.<<

I've expressed these same thoughts myself to students or folks who aren't
sympathetic to net-art. But I think in rhapsodizing about the immateriality of
the web, we always forget about the box of delivery.  The box is what is
limiting, what perhaps people [audience and makers]  are frustrated and
dissatisfied with. It is an object.  So is the monitor.  And the keyboard.  And
these objects can be beautiful, but often are pretty mundane, even ugly and
strongly mediate our experience of the ephemeral web work.

 >>We do not yet know where the sacred lie in "things" created through
technology. But think about it:
 Why should technology be deprived of the "mysterious"? ...But netart exists,
grows  and multiplies in an different world, where richness of experience is
not measured by how the senses are being provoked, but by how the brain is
being challenged to create new connections, new associations, new
understandings. This is where the richness, the spirituality and the «
sacredness » of  netart lie. <<

I think this is the same question I always ask, only with a different spin.
"Can we experience the visceral through a computer screen?"
I say yes, but lots of people disagree with me.

Thanks, Ollivier, for your thoughts.

Cheers
Deanne

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Deanne Achong
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