[-empyre-] digitisation and audiences

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

reiner strasser wrote:--
>Digital has to leave digital that we can perceive it.
>
>(As long as technology is like it is now - I use my senses --- even >when
>digital is connected to nerves - it is no longer digital --- ignoring >the
>thesis that our brain is working digital - or similar - synapsis etc.)

That's a good point Rainer. The assumption most people appear
to work with is that subject plus the object (the work of art) 
are transformed through a technical process of digitisation.

It does not necessarily follow that the audience (or 'reader'/ 'viewer') is digital, though there are some 
interesting 'effects' arising from the assumption that they are. 
The dot.com boom seemed to be one. The demise of World.com another.
The evaporation of billions of dollars of speculative capital a
third.

Another of these 'effects' is the belief that there is some 
autonomous space where ideas, politics and the law are 
somehow suspended. This was a popular view held especially by 
people interested in something called 'Net Culture' which was 
popular, I believe though I wasn;t interested much in any of that,
 in the early 1990s, [see Nettime for the ageing, indeed greying version]. They called this  imaginary fictive space 'cyberspace'
 (which has of course become 'cyber' space in the contemporary 
popular imaginary).
 
Would you like to take your insight further? I wonder how this
belief in an autonomous space in digital culture impacts the 
gallery and the partly, or relatively, autonomous space of
the culture industry?


Lachlan


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