[-empyre-] Thanks to Regina, Jorge, aLe, and Ana Maria

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Thanks to Regina Célia Pinto, Alexandre Venera, Jorge Luiz Antonio, those
who have participated in the discussion during March, and the empyre mods.

The art practice of this month's guests has a strong net-based component. So
it has been possible to experience the work and talk about it in relation to
their concerns. When I think back on March on empyre, the stream of memory
alternates between textual exchange and the hypermedia of our guests,
between concerns with peace and understanding and fiesty discussion of the
rational and irrational, authoritarianism and freedom, between "PAN PAZ
imagine", "The Psychiatrist, Net.art / Web.art and other stories", links to
Brazilian digital poetry, and "A Flock of Angels".

It has been rewarding to get to know your work and you better, Regina,
Alexandre, and Jorge, and also to have this opportunity to remember our
friend Ana Maria Uribe together publicly, plan for the future together
publicly, and see Ana Maria's work in relation to our dialog. When I think
of works by Ana Maria such as "A Host of Halfties" or "The Circus", at the
moment, I think of the characters in them as our work or as us, and of
artists and writers attempting to create on the net language spaces of
strong character where we are and are not, where our work is a "halfty", of
beings that exist between the phenomenal world of language and other worlds.
I am grateful to know you and your work, and for this opportunity to speak
together publicly about it. I wish you and all on the list continued insight
and creation through the phenomenal and fantastic.

We pass the talking stick now, with respect and best wishes, to April's
host, Felix Sattler.

ja

Primary March links:

ANA MARIA URIBE
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uribe
http://vispo.com/uribe
http://amuribe.tripod.com

REGINA CÉLIA PINTO
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm
http://arteonline.arq.br

ALEXANDRE VENERA
http://www.eale.hpg.com.br

JORGE LUIZ ANTONIO
http://vispo.com/misc/BrazilianDigitalPoetry.htm