[-empyre-] Melinda Rackham: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Renate Ferro]

Thanks so much Renate and Tim for the invitation to submit a Digital
Resolution- I watched Pollyanna the other night and it changed my life..
instead of being Resolute I am delighted to be playing the "Glad Game"...

9 Reasons to be Cheerful..

I'm glad we have the internet- it gives Governments somewhere new to try to
enforce censorship regulations.

I'm glad hardly any institutions really bothered to collect internet art- it
will make it so much more valuable in 15 years time.

I'm glad internet software updates rapidly and is often not backwards
compatible - it provides senior artists with an income in recoding their
unusable early works.

I'm glad my newton/palm/xda/iphone/blackberry fell into the sea water and
fizzled and died on Valentine's day - so I could get a
newer/better/faster/bigger/slicker model.

I'm glad I can follow the intricacies of the lives of my 600 closest friends
on Facebook and every minute career enhancement of my 200 most valued
business colleagues on Linkedin.

I'm glad I'm scared of Twitter

Im glad $50 computers are saving the lives of people who live in poverty
around the world - I suppose that means they eat them?

I'm glad Mitchell Whitelaw showed me the Internet cause I  would have had an
enormous amount of spare time in the past 15 years otherwise.

I'm glad of my terminal connections - my receptors have adapted and I get
withdrawal symptoms without them.

Love muchly and often.
Xx Melinda

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Melinda Rackham (Australia)  is an artist, writer and curator in the 
fields of networked
art, 3d multi-user environments  and emerging technologies. Her projects
span the theoretical, aesthetic and social aspects of  identity, locality,
trans species relations and augmentation.  Dr Rackham is currently the
Director of ANAT - an innovative cultural organisation generating new
creativities at the intersections of art, science & technology.
-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University