Re: [-empyre-] Re: docublog

[Brandon Barr <barr@mail.rochester.edu>]

At 7:56 PM +1000 6/10/02, Adrian Miles wrote:
> 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....

This is a great post.  The documentary form is intriguing, yes.

I've had praystation on my own blogroll  from the beginning precisely 
because it falls withing the genre of process-work.  There are also 
several photographers whose sites continually update and offer much 
insight into the artists' process/work.


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Brandon Barr
University of Rochester
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