Re: [-empyre-] Designing Contexts...

[saul ostrow <sostrow@gate.cia.edu>]

hermeneutics -- nothing means without context

Charlotte Frost wrote:
> 
> I know Melinda and Kathy have already given accounts of the feedback and
> issues raised at the panel at ISEA, but in response to my own particular
> talk, the main response which set my mind whirring, was that of Joel
> Slayton.
> 
> He picked up on my idea that at times the list is really about context and
> less about content and asked who is the parasite in this sort of situation,
> the art or the list? He asked whether new media is in fact the art of
> designing contexts and whether there is anything in such contextual
> structures that is meaningful in itself, or if it is all context?
> 
> I would love to know how other people would answer these questions?!
> 
> Charlotte
> 
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