Re: [-empyre-] Do You Still Your Own Reality?

[Mitchell Whitelaw <mitchell.whitelaw@canberra.edu.au>]

Reading Brett's posts I was waiting for some mention of the recent wave 
of  data.art practices... which seem to me to contain the seeds of 
something like this imaginary practice. Maybe some works in this field 
- those that avoid abyssal tail-eating reflexivity, and data.sublime 
aesthetic distraction - are examples of an
> analytical practice that produces "reality congruency" 
> tools/experiences that are non-didactic and non-ironic.

Does something like theyrule.net count as cheeky or preachy? Others 
will have better examples - I'm lagging on such things...

Mitchell

On 04/11/2004, at 11:06 AM, Brett Stalbaum wrote:

> The nature of the practice that I am trying to imagine - and by no 
> means have an answer for - would not in any way be anti-intellectual, 
> btw. Just not cheeky or preachy. It should not tickle the anti-elite 
> gene that George Bush has been so successful at hacking. (The "regular 
> guy" member of the elite of the elite of U.S families.) It has to 
> engage people intellectually and positively, or fail. It has to be 
> inclusive, or at a minimum, inviting. It has to find other proteins to 
> attach to, because the pedagogical and satirical vectors through which 
> reason has traditionally spread have become somewhat immune. I'm not 
> sure what to do about this, but what can't work for artists (in the 
> U.S. now) is the status quo.


Mitchell Whitelaw
Program Director, Media / Multimedia Production
School of Creative Communication
University of Canberra
http://creative.canberra.edu.au/mitchell