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

["Gregory Little" <glittle@oberlin.net>]

Yes, it seems odd to me to place such limitations on the blog; requiring it
to be fictional, requiring it to be radically new, etc.  I am thinking here
of Documentary Film, or even conceptual works of art that document
non-fiction, real life events and process (Carolee Schneemann's Blood Work
Diary, for example) are clearly art.  Isn't the blog possibly a raw medium
in the sense of material, "stuff" that can be (re)formed or
(re)contextualized into meaning, either through code or context?

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[mailto:empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au]On Behalf Of Adrian Miles
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Subject: [-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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