[-empyre-] Linda Dement: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Renate Ferro]

Dear Tim and Renate
I have some new year's resolutions for digital futures:

1. I will never again upgrade to a new system unless someone else 
tries it first.
2. I will not buy a new computer unless the old one has stopped working.
3. I will always carefully seal the cracks and joins of the scanner 
before placing dead birds or bodily fluids on the glass.
4. Between 1am and 4am, I will not delete files I think I won't need again.
5. I will only pay for hosting on servers powered by renewable energy.
6. In the mornings I will make art before checking my email.
7. I will not answer the phone.
8. I will never again let an old computer go to landfill, even though 
I have to arrange the whole palaver to send it to Minto and they 
never pick it up when they say they will.
9. I will use open source software wherever possible.
10. I will learn to solder despite my failing eyesight.

bio:

Linda Dement (Australia) has been working with arts computing since 
1989. She has authored screen based interactives, multi-computer 
installations and collaborated in translocal and performative new 
media events. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the 
ICA in London, Ars Electronica, International Symposia of Electronic 
Art and the Impakt Media Arts Festival in Europe. She is twice winner 
of the Australian National Digital Art Award and has been awarded a 
New Media Arts Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts.

-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University