[-empyre-] Re: empyre digest, Vol 1 #141 - 4 msgs



At 12:00 +1000 7/6/02, Patrick Lichty wrote:
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.

yeah, i'd agree with this. unless a blog is explicitly (implicitly?) fictional in some manner then it is more journalisese than art. i think they're very usefully thought of as a form (the form?) of documentary hypertext practice. so are largely non fiction narratives.


on the other hand they are well suited to fictionalisation and serialisation, and something as 'traditionally' hypertextual as the unknown (http://www.unknown.com/) though the url might be wrong, i'm offline as i write) has some blog like qualities to it.

cheers
adrian miles
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+ lecturer in new media and cinema studies [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog]
+ interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/]
+ hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au]
+ InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]






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