Re: [-empyre-] neural

[Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it>]

Sorry for being quite absent, but it's a lot of stuff to deal with...

> Hello Alessandro,
>
> I find your http://www.neural.it/english very useful, particularly for news
> of interactive audio projects, since that is my own work, but also your
> neural.it is useful far more broadly. There aren't too many sites around
> that provide the 'news' (is that the right word?) concerning new projects in
> digital art. None that I know of do as good a job as what I see on your
> site.

Thanks a lot for your compliments!

> I have been reading recently of Italy under Berlusconi. I suppose it would
> be a bit like Ted Turner becoming president of the USA or Conrad Black Prime
> Minister in Canada. He is a big media monster. I read that he is a regular
> visitor of Bush in the USA, also. They seem to be 'birds of a feather'.

Sadly, they are.

> How do you view the role of neural.it and, more generally, the internet and
> its art amid this curent pretty revolting situation both in Italy and much
> of the West concerning strong political abuse of electronic media?

It's such a big question....
Anyway, I think that ultra-conservative communication must be fought 
with radical communication and deconstruction of propaganda 
mechanism. And that's the stuff many artists and artivist deal with. 
So the role of Neural.it is to report of freedom of expression 
initiatives, artistic intervention and new practices that could rise 
the consciousness on what is happening here: a media monopoly mogul 
that produces invisible censorship and is eroding every public 
richness (space, structures, state's ownerships, internal 
relationships...).
The net offers lots of spaces for debates, wich are very important to 
reflect and speculate, but I'm really interested in ideas, innovative 
ideas that outstand new point of views and strategical tactics of 
resisting.

I think that this is very important for conserving and fostering 
freedom of expression.


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Alessandro Ludovico
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