[-empyre-] Wired sustainability and Ambient Media

[Patricia Zimmermann]

Speaking historiographically: of course, Brad.  But my contention would be
that ALL media and digital art forms have residual traces in previous
iterations; this claim can be advanced for virtually all media and arts.
It does not, however, discount it.  In fact, one might argue that ambient
media forms go back even further than happenings and fluxus, in the
ambient non temporal, non linear musics of Erik Satie, Debussy, etc. even
before Brian Eno.

The point I would make here is that to discount any form for its residual
traces is to ultimately dehistoricize it and depoliticize it.  What is
interesting from a historians point of view (what I do in my "day job" )
are the new vectors and social/political/technological contexts that
create and generate different possibilities and different meanings.  It's
the change that is important, not the object or its approach.

Patty


Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cinema and Photography
Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Ithaca College
Ithaca New York 14850 USA
Phone: 607 274 3431    FAX  607 274 7078
http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/
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> *sigh*
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> this ambient-video-media has been around for at least 30
> years...  (yes, I and others were making video like this in
> the mid 70's -- perhaps you're just fixated by the apparent
> plasma resolution -- the now-a-day cheap content hardly
> matters -- or, is promoting new-product where the funding-is
> -- so-called-art is the default stand-in for
> tech-promotion...)
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> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Timothy Murray wrote:
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>> While I find this discussion on ambient media on plasma to be
>> interesting, I find myself wondering about a certain slide toward
>> this format in the museum and curatorial world which well could
>> distract artists and curators from the quirky grit of much work
>> concerned with "wired sustainability..."
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