Re: [-empyre-] bandwidth aesthetics

["Melinda Rackham" <melindar@acmi.net.au>]

ahh my favourite topic..
why do we insist on trying to make the network into something else..
 trying to turn one media into another and evaluate it on standards and
parameters which are completely foreign to it  rather than its native
attributes. its probably the same reason we call what see displayed on
monitor screens "pages".. the human fear of the unknown and need for
familiarity.. i guess it takes time.. but we've had at least 10 years now..
of course the irony is that in the retro chic cycle  we will be experience
the renaissance and celebration lo bandwidth aesthetic as soon as it is no
longer a functional technical consideration it can become a consumable
decorative (profitable) aesthetic.

m





> 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.
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