Re: [-empyre-] bandwidth aesthetics

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

One thing that always surprises me, that film theory - for example
Christian Metz - is rarely brought to bear, at at least a lot of the
net art I've seen depends on a conceptualized and usually 'stark'
content - and you're right, it's not the bandwidth, it's the innerds -
Alan

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, honor wrote:

> 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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