[-empyre-] Forwarded from Jill Magid [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Meziane, Tracey" <Tracey.Meziane@environment.gov.au>]

Hi all,

Could you please send your messages to the list in 'plain text'
otherwise they bounce!

Cheers
Tracey

Forwarded message from JM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Hi Stacia, 


I liked this part of the virtual definition: 
"a practical failure" 
because without the in-context sentence (which was something like 'the
once elegant temple 
is now in virtual ruin'), it leaves me to consider what a practical
verses an impractical failure 
would be. Is an almost-failure simply a potential- not a potential
failure but simply the potential 
of something next, something else. I think this may work well with the
idea of virtual digital 
space. I wonder your thoughts on this. Do you see virtual spaces as
transitional spaces- do 
they ever 'train' you for the real? or do you prefer them to be
autonomous realities/ experiences? 


I still don't think for me it is the right definition for the fictional
spaces I am working with, in that 
the events did happen in the real and now have gone through the filter
of perception. For me, 
calling these observations and perceptions fiction is almost a disguise.



Jill
Tracey Meziane 
Centre for New Media Arts 
The Australian National University 
http://www.byte-time.net 
http://swipezone.blogspot.com 
http://www.anu.edu.au/newmedia/pages/postgrad.html 
skype: byte-time 

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