Re: [-empyre-] Re: docublog

["clare" <oclare@paradise.net.nz>]

As a documentary filmmaker, I like that 'docublog'.
and in particular, 'praystaytion' or maybe 'preystation'
play pray prey ...
all part of the same quest for inspiration, intrigue, the unknown...
i've just been on a visual learnign 'digital campfire' in utah as part of
the ACM Siggraph group...8000 feet above sea level, where walking itself is
an effort...
the awesomeness of nature
a puma and a coyote spotted in the nearby mountains
chipmunks and squirrles never seen before
while discussing virtual worlds, 3D design, a new immersive visual language
and playing with augmented reality games in the carpark - Quake - immersive,
walking thru' the carpark with this head set display on, seeing the
mountains around while shooting monstors inside my headset...it was fun and
yet, vaguely disconcerting about the future... but intriguing
where are we heading?
a document in cyberspace for now...

clare o
back home....via l.a. new york. boston utah...


Subject: [-empyre-] Re: docublog


> 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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