Re: [-empyre-] upgrading downtime?

[//jonCates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

On Nov 20, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Henry Warwick wrote:
> >is it necessary for someone who makes software as art to make 
> software that is actually useable?

no

> >Software that is built to work: realist
> >Software that is built with no intention of working: abstract

not necessarily

> >Is there a beautiful new media / software design failure?

yes

> >Or is the intention of "working" always a precondition of realisation?

no

in terms of artware projects (that intersect w/this thread, the 
"Whispering in the Dark" theme, meanings of New Media art in relation 
to revolutionary struggles + social resistance, etc...) here are sum 
URIs that link to projects to consider:

http://runme.org/categories/+appropriation_and_plagiarism/

http://runme.org/categories/+institutional_critique/

http://runme.org/categories/+political_and_activist_software/

http://runme.org/categories/+system_dysfunctionality/

all from Runme.org, a software art repository + platform for the 
distribution + discussion of artware.

artware is for me [personally/artistically/academically] a deeply 
important aspect + dynamic area of New Media as an art 
{form|discourse}.

// jonCates
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