Re: [-empyre-] text, criticism + geography

[Reiner Strasser <reiner.s@netartefact.de>]

Sorry, Melinda, maybe missreading

> going back to someone else's comment earlier that the web is by its coded
> nature ie HTML, a space for text rather than image then
> so that makes the "text" part of  HTML open to a very wide interpretation
> then..,
> and obviously inclusive of anything at all which we read, see, hear,
> process, or sense in any way.
HTML is text based because the programming language was created (at first)
to work with "text". Every macro-programming language is based on verbal
language to be more easy to handle and understood.
> 
> which makes net.art a sort of chaotic anti heirarchical collage of
> sensation, totally unrelated to any language or geographical structure,
> without the necessitry to define values of form content , without value
> judgements of good and bad etc.... it flattens the playing filed.. which i
> don't think is the way it works in the hard space of realism. we arent being
> globally idealistic any more in net.art (and everything else) then language
> matters, position matters, geography matters..
Form-content (for me) is essential in the process of creation and in the
reception of the created. - else all will become "optional" in the meaning
of "belanglos" (irrelevant).
A world without values (when not reduced to a good-bad, good-evil dualism)
will be poor. I have my doubt that it will even be possible.
> 
> sometimes a good old simple binary, like text-image, is very useful - we all
> know its an arbitrary inclusive value, but it makes everything so goddamn
> easy  to talk about .. not having to expalin infinite shades of grey in each
> sentance..
Thinking between "poles", the tension inbetween, is useful for creation (and
critizism) (and more easy to handle) - even when these "poles" are part of a
more complex structure. ("structures" are nothing more than intellectual
constructions - models - were we try to understand/handle "reality" in the
limits of our mind and being)
> 
> melinda

Reiner