[-empyre-] liminal filters

[Christina McPhee <christinamcphee@yahoo.com>]

like at the edges of marshes where streams flow into
the swamps, the liminal areas are called littorals.
The littoral is an edge to the filter of the marsh
itself which sifts through all the organic matter
suspended in the water and redistributes it

this condition of 'new media' as a ubiquitous binary
coded environment makes the situation like that of
architecture, everywhere and nowhere

I desire and work for something beyond the self as a
filter, and yet resist the ideological filters

I resist being coded

it is perhaps the resistance, malleable and
semi-permeable and persistent,  itself that is a kind
of filter?

cm



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cpr wrote
-  We work 
> in fields dominated by mobility, and the expeditious
> movement of liminal
> quantities across 
> increasingly porous borders.  Is this fluidity
> enabled by virtuality what
> we are defining as a 
> field of New Media?  Or is is the essence of code
> and interface?  Now that
> we have, in one 
> "almost real" sense, become one within the flow of
> binary code ... where is
> this field on New 
> Media when it is everywhere ...insinuating itself
> ubiquitously into the
> material conditions of 
> our lives.
> 
> What I sense is a growing insularity and, perhaps,
> insulation by the
> attempts to construct a 
> definition such as "New Media". Perhaps our
> challenge is devise alternative
> definitions of 
> potentials that do not simply oppose the
> essesentialism of technologies to
> its effects?  To me 
> what becomes more interesting is what new operative
> processes and
> possibilities which are 
> emerging from these hybrid cross disciplinary
> affiliations and practices.  
> In this "search for 
> meaning" I find myself returning once and again to
> the notion of a filter
> ... a sense of filtration 
> through which one finds movement, passage and
> possibility rather then an
> end point.
> 
> ©
> 
> 
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Alan Sondheim sondheim@panix.com
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:30:17 -0500 (EST)
> To: nickm@nickm.com, empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] old discussion,  and pieces
> of history
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When did their work become new media? You'd have to
> establish
> discontinuities, borders...
> 
> I'm fascinated more by the diversity of art
> practices than anything else
> here -
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Nick Montfort wrote:
> 
> >
> > Alan,
> >
> > > Just want to add here that all of this
> discussion of works and histories
> > > only points to the problematic of new media as a
> category once again -
> >
> > Really? Does that fact that people have diverse
> backgrounds and influences
> > mean that the field or category of new media
> doesn't exist?
> >
> > -Nick Montfort
> >  http://nickm.com  nickm@nickm.com
> >  My new book, Twisty Little Passages:
> http://nickm.com/twisty>
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> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Alan Sondheim sondheim@panix.com
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:30:17 -0500 (EST)
> To: nickm@nickm.com, empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] old discussion,  and pieces
> of history
> 
> 
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