[-empyre-] Re: docublog

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 12:00 +1000 8/6/02, Gregory Little wrote:
> 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?

actually the more i've thought about it over a cup of tea the more i 
like the idea of blogs as documentary. documentary is a very rich 
practice that supports everything from the observational bordering on 
surveillance 'objectivity' through to full on essayist approaches. it 
also includes a lot of self awareness about it's own discourse, 
particularly in relation to what it thinks it might be representing. 
documentary certainly strikes me as more self aware than journalism, 
even the current fashion for journalism and 'soft' fictionalisation 
(feature journalism that isn't about politics or politics). or if it 
isn't web documentary (though might bumper sticker that one yet) then 
documentary cinema offers a lot of theoretical insights that are 
relevant to blogging.

and for the artists busy hiding from the academic nature the list has 
leered into. something like praystation would seem to be rather 
bloggish....

cheers
adrian miles
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