Re: [-empyre-] bandwidth aesthetics

[honor <honor@va.com.au>]

hi henry, alan et al,

>I agree that in 20 years things are going to be a good bit different
>(Assuming the likes of George Bush et al don't turn the USA into a typical
>authoritarian disaster with no middle class) with better faster gear

i guess my whole point was that you don't actually need " better faster
gear" in order to create highly evocative + powerful works of art using
streaming media.  i don't subscribe to the idea that we need to wait for
some unspecified future moment where broadband is ubiquitous, in order to
make meaningful works using this technology.  there is always going to be
bandwidth inequity, no m atter how technology + distrubution systems evolve
in the next few years.

personally i think that some of the artistic experiments i pointed to in my
post, which utilise the network in its current sluggish, congested + jerky
form are not merely the produts of some interim creative era. they tell us
a lot about the underlying structures of the network + the things artists
have to consider when working with this network.  they are intelligent and
sometimes beautiful pieces in their own right.

honor

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