Re: [-empyre-] Opening remarks on new media history

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Simon Biggs wrote:

> On 2/1/04 5:55 am, "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
>
> > The best _art_ (installation, performance) teachers I've known were David
> > Askevold at NSCAD and an artist teaching at the Tasmanian School of Art,
> > Hobart - both required nothing at all of their students, but gave them the
> > freedom to explore anything from traditional painting to cutting-edge
> > electronics. Evaluation was based on the work itself, not on genre
> > (although I'm well aware of the arguments about this).
> -----
> Was the Tasmanian teacher Leigh Hobba by any chance? An interesting artist
> and character.
>

I knew him there, but it was Lutz Presser I was thinking of.

One might consider the computer at the base of just about everything
vis-a-vis Turing machines, Wolfram, etc. But there are of course issues of
interface, things are always so analog at the end -

Alan