Re: [-empyre-] locative city, annotated space au

[hight@34n118w.net]

>>trough between waves.......

what are the flaws and dangers of working with art and technology......?

what does "new" really mean? (semantics/semiotics/etymology/slang
derivation...)








if you could overlap two different periods (or more) in a place, which
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> what do you find most interesting about the possibilities with location
> aware art and technology? now....in 5 years...in 20.......
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>> Wow.
>> I agree with you that content is absolutely crucial.  I am really
>> concerned about what I call the "whizz bang kapow" or "gadget factor"
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>> much is made of cool gear and interesting experiments , but rich content
>> and a new artistic work in terms of methodology and metaphor is often
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>> "I" and linearity are not what I see in a city.  In 34n the narratives I
>> wrote are from the pov's of people in many different places and times
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>> place is resonant with multiple voices, nonlinearity and the application
>> of new approaches to content, not a rehashing of what could work in a
>> more
>> traditional form. There can be situationist type work too in a sense of
>> questioning governmental controls, and of place  (what if it is a place
>> one knows but all the data is of a place that is far off..and
>> misunderstood.....afghanastan for example......)
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>> "style is a personal form of originality".   that is a horrible
>> construct
>> for any work .....if you mean as style over substance.....
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>> ayers.......rich with meaning.......artistic skill in researching and in
>> placing to heighten awareness of place while also questioning it
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>> I agree with you that content is crucial ( thy soat is m
>>> Dear empyreans,
>>> this type of silicon-augmentation of the meatscape brings a number of
>>> things
>>> to mind. They are, in no particular order:
>>>
>>> 1. Benjamin's Arcaden-Pojekt. Antecedent for the flaneur is the
>>> Baudelairean
>>> dandy for whom "style is a personal form of originality". (I would like
>>> to
>>> juxtapose here the impersonally totalised reading of place with the
>>> "monument to sentiment" (Deleuze and Guattari) I understand as both
>>> underwritten by Baudelaire's idea of style and as constitutive -might
>>> one
>>> use the word hypostasis? - of the art act);
>>>
>>> 2. The legend of the Golem - place augmented by data as Golem-like;
>>>
>>> 3. From 1984 onward, New Zealand (whence I write) underwent a
>>> thoroughgoing
>>> and abstract reorientation of its social and economic structures
>>> towards
>>> a
>>> Friedman-esque 'free' market system. This one local commentator has
>>> called
>>> "the New Zealand experiment". The impact of the experiment on cultural
>>> institutions has been immense, experientially, although unmeasured. But
>>> I
>>> am
>>> bringing to your attention one aspect of this transformation of the
>>> socius:
>>> there is no longer - outside the field of transformative processes - an
>>> effective means, media, for critiquing%
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