Re: [-empyre-] notes on the future

["Marek Walczak" <wonderwalker@hotmail.com>]

Last week went to the Library of Performing Arts to see videos of Kantor, 
Grotowski and other directors, some of which I had seen in Poland as a kid 
in the 1970s. As I was watching ?The Cloakroom? the tape began to degrade 
and snow, finally the technician called up to tell me that none of the decks 
could play the tape, they would have to restore it. So my memory and the 
physical object were entwined.

Previous cultures used physical objects for cultural dissemination. Already 
we shift from movies to TV to recorded sound to DVD. The stuff on Rhizome 
won?t play in, say, 5 years, like broken links on search engines. Later the 
whole idea of a browser will disappear, there will be data objects that you 
variously manipulate for specific delivery mechanisms on computing devices. 
Applications, who needs them? Netomat perhaps is a step in that direction, 
though I don?t think they see that.

Last year a French Canadian (?) was talking about models for new media art. 
He mentioned the tribe making carvings for a specific festival, after which 
the sculptures would be discarded. From year to year the memory would hold, 
but the specifics would change according to the current context. (reminds me 
of fashion)

On the other hand I don?t think even Mies, with his glass skyscraper of the 
1930?s would recognize the immaterial glass skin I am currently rendering 
for 7 WTC.
marek

> And I completely believe that "categories" are something of the past.
> Definitions of artists (do you perform / make objects / do video = or
> all of the above?) as well as media (sound / image / text / soft /
> hard / real / virtual) are meeting up in interesting ways. If there
> is one thing that they computer offers is this opportunity to mix
> digital media. I look forward to a context where making installation
> / performance / painting / interactive art work will not be such an
> anomaly. And why should it? This is the world we live in. And I might
> not be the first person to say that - sometimes it's nice to do
> things away from the computer & then come back to it and integrate
> what one has done in the "physical" world into the "digital" world.
>
> Valerie


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