Re: [-empyre-] bandwidth aesthetics

[Henry Warwick <henry.warwick@sbcglobal.net>]

I feel like I'm a wee bit misunderstood.


The Voices in my Head tell me that on 4/8/04 1:39 PM, Alan Sondheim at
sondheim@panix.com wrote:
> 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:
>> 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.

And IIRC I wrote:

With online video - one naturally assumes the quality is going to suck
horribly, and so one looks to other qualia for understanding. Incorporating
the distortion not as something to be celebrated, but to be ignored. This
allows for a video viewing for what the video can say rather than for what
it is doing.

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Which is to say: I think I said the same thing in my funny way.

Presently I am trying to put together a kind of formative theory of
performance cinema, a related topic, and one where there is even less
accessible theory available. Cash gifts and assistance are all
appreciated...

;-)

I *completely* and TOTALLY agree that one doesn't need high tech gear to
make compelling cinema (the long rich history of 8mm film and pixelvision
and portapak video attest to that - Full disclosure- due to present
technology access, I project my video at 320x240 photoJPEG compression). In
fact, I would humbly submit that one big problem with a lot of the new media
I've seen lately is that the technology has become a kind of content, as if
some new filter or module for Max/MSP has a content to itself. Now, that can
OK but only so far and in specific contexts. At some point it has to speak
about something other than its own creation in an evocative and compelling
way. 

And...

I would submit that such an arrangement centers around narrativity and
various structures of and around it, and I would suggest that this may also
hold true for online content as well.


my very best regards to all.
 


HW

"Sorry to have been so much of a bore,
But in my own funny ways I find I learn much more."