[-empyre-] learning tools

[Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no>]

tim jaeger wrote:
> The pen makes writing easier, but you don't "learn pen" or "learn pencil"
> (the same way today you "learn flash" and "learn C++") in order to write
> better!  you engage in history, thinking, discussion groups, classrooms,
> whatever. same for artmaking practices.

don't you remember how many hundreds and hundreds of hours it took 
you to learn to write with a pen? or to write fluently on a keyboard, 
for that matter. it seems to me artists of every kind have always had 
to spend a lot of time learning their medium.

Jill
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Jill Walker / Dept of Humanistic Informatics / University of Bergen / 
5020 Bergen / Norway
http://cmc.uib.no/jill
jill.walker@uib.no