[-empyre-] transformation and transmission: local and network

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

Evidently this conversation uses some of the rhetoric of modernist  
discourse but is itself not
modernist sui generis. Indeed the list itself is an instance of the   
N state networked database art practice.
-empyre- seeks posts that illuminate

" present-day transformative processes: What kinds of mentalities  
have evolved in various regions? What kinds of discussions are taking  
place on the changes occurring in the various economic, social,  
intellectual and artistic milieus? Which impulses can be derived for  
the international discourse from these regional self-concepts? An  
important aim of the network is to provide a broader forum in which  
authors, theorists and artists who work on the local implementation  
of discursive practices can expound on their experiences, and compare  
these experiences with those of people in other situations and contexts"

(this from the remit of Documenta 12 magazine project)


cm



On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Christiane Robbins @ Jetztzeit wrote:
I'm not at all sure if we ( you, Pall,  and I ) are addressing the  
same issues in this email exchange, as it appears somewhat slippery.

What does strike me in this exchange and the subsequent on-line  
discussion is that there is seemingly an absence in your emails  
( below and another recent one re: database ) of a referent to  
anything beyond formal considerations of materiality/technicality.   
This, of course, speaks to a modernist position - relative to late  
20c art history/critical theoretical positions.

And, quite obviously, I am/have been restricting my comments only the  
specificity of a late 20c visual art/media trajectories - not the  
entirety of the 20c complex of notions of modernity.... which is way,  
way beyond my level of expertise!

In any case, thanks for the exchange -

Chris


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