[-empyre-] futurephysical

["Watkins, Tanith" <Tanith.Watkins@jacobs.com>]

Empyre
A UK website (futurephysical) is calling for submissions/ideas/creative
works that 'make creative use of digital technologies in relationship to the
human body and/or push visions of the future for human computer interfaces'.

Anyone interested should go to:
http://www.futurephysical.org/pages/opencommissions.html
(Closing date for submissions: 01/03/02)
Tanith

-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Walker [mailto:jill.walker@uib.no]
Sent: 19 February 2002 10:19
To: empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Subject: [-empyre-] learning tools


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
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