Re: [-empyre-] experience Vs commerce

["Damien Everett" <damien.everett@rmit.edu.au>]

>i'll also insist
that one holds onto both concept *and* code as the code is simply the
language of concept delivery. 

Or  the concept is en-"coded" in the medium of delivery... that the structure and behavior of the code is abstracted in a dynamic virtual information architecture , a metamap of the work. They are inseparatably linked.

Tho I don't believe all artists need to work on lower level programming, conceptually it helps to fully understand the possibilities of the medium you are working in and evolve an appropriate working methodology. 

one of the great potentials of xml / x3d based systems is the potential ease of conversion into other formats... so a "universal 3d" platform becomes a possibility... old formats could be converted on the fly, and rendered at an optimum level for the viewing device.

so it looks like we are heading towards digital nirvana, all our problems will be solved, everything will be possible... at least thats what I've been telling myself for the past 10 years...
damien