[-empyre-] Ian Clothier: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Timothy Murray]

My hope for 2009 is to end the obsession the West has with being the 
correct one, with holding the right point of view. I would like to 
open doors that allow a menagerie of concepts to cohabit willingly, 
without any put down. I'd like to see the abacus listed as the 
precursor of the computer, instead of the difference engine. I wish 
to see Asia acknowledged for it's incredible multi-millennium 
innovation. I'd love a bridge that connected Pasifika, Asian, Indian, 
south American and Western European beliefs systems alongside each 
other. I wish we could see nature as playing a strange perverse game 
of variation rather than a survival of the fittest - chance outpaces 
natural selection. Above all I wish love was a respectable emotion, 
good enough for academic and artistic discourse: love for 
environment, for people, for stars. Dreams are free, and one path of 
many to living without chains.

Ian M Clothier
Director
intercreate.org

Bio: Ian M Clothier (New Zealand) lectures at Western Institute of 
Technology at Taranaki (WITT), is Director of Intercreate Research 
Centre and founding Director of SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New 
Zealand). He has been selected three times for ISEA (International 
Symposium on the Electronic Arts) - twice for exhibition, and has 
exhibited in nine countries. His written work has been published in 
Leonardo, Convergence and Digital Creativity. Creative works have 
been focused on hybridity and nonlinearity, and more recently on 
integrated systems.
-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University