Re: [-empyre-] ~~NMR

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

On 13/01/2004, at 9:03 PM, Jim Andrews wrote:

> Does 'new media' as you and Noah conceive it involve a different 
> relation
> between technological innovation and art? Or is the relation between
> technological innovation and art in computing-based new media the same 
> as
> the relation between technical innovation and art in more traditional 
> art?

I would wonder out aloud about the fussiness or the fuzziness of the 
distinctions that are being drawn. In painting you can ground your own 
pigments, or just buy a tube of the stuff. You could make your own 
brushes, I suppose make your own canvas (at least preparing it is 
pretty standard), and so on. You could sketch the work first, you could 
paint directly onto board, prepared or otherwise. In each case we have 
painting. The distinction for me would not be who made what and how, 
but the distinction between naif and others.

This distinction is not perhaps easy to draw, but I think the uses made 
is more significant than the 'authenticity' of the materials (I 
appreciate this is *not* the distinction you're making Jim).

cheers
Adrian Miles
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