Re: [-empyre-] Re: empyre digest, Vol 1 #139 - 7 msgs

["Patrick Lichty" <voyd@voyd.com>]

Well, the blog seems to certainly be a topic of our moment.

AN interesting aside, there was a point where I had considered curating a
show of blogs as an alternative artform, but I believe that the Palm Beach
ICA beat me to the punch.
http://www.palmbeachica.org/blogfiles/blog/index.html

The funny thing is that in conversation with my friend and colleague Peter
von Brandenburg (aka Blackhawk), I was discussing the idea of blogs as
artform, and he was very squarely against the blog being radically new or
even an artform, but more something that has come about through a series of
progressive cultural shift in communication and as a form of lierature of
even journalism than conceptual art.

Most of this (to me) has mroe to do with the way the individual shapes the
narrative of their blog.  For the moment, I have seen few blogs that deviate
from a fairly representative narrative, opting toward a journalistic or
op-ed style of writing.  I'd love to see a surreal, literary style of prose
incorporated into blogging, or even have forms of literary fiction
incorporated into the form, truly turning it into a form of dynamic
literature.

I find the Wiki technology much more exciting, as I had the chance to
participate in Giselle Beugelmann's piece for the Sao Paulo Biennial ("c'est
ne pas une Nike").  As time went on, the text seemed to writhe under the
hand of the participants, and the negotiations beteeen the writers that the
text represented was fascinating to watch, alluding to an archtiectonic of
lexia.