Re: [-empyre-] why i surf net.art

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 13:06 +1000 10/7/02, j.abbate@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> Am I detecting a faint nostalgia for the 2400 baud modem? Isn't the 
> only difference the arbitrary imposition of an online speed limit 
> that is going to change with the next technological advance anyway? 
> I am interested in this phenomena: the often utopic rhetoric of so 
> much new media work is negated by a somewhat purist adherence to, or 
> fetishisation of, the current technological conditions. What say?

i think this is slipping off topic but yes and no. i sometimes teach 
students from the developing world in a first world nation and i 
guess something i want them to know is that they have to accept 
bandwidth as a positive creative restraint otherwise they simply 
won't get their heads around work that is relevant to why they're 
doing this in the first place (to make stuff for home).

i guess i dont' see the terms as problematic in this sense, in much 
the same way that i'd say a painter who today uses canvas needs to 
somewhere think about this as a positive material constraint in their 
practice, otherwise use something else, and if you're nostalgic for 
frescos, go paint one :-) and yes it's still painting but don't 
complain that you can't exhibit it in that gallery over there.

cheers
adrian miles
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