[-empyre-] Adriene Jenik: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Renate Ferro]

Adriene Jenik's "New Year's Resolutions for Digital Futures"

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I resolve not to fear the future.
But to face the headwind.
To stand fast and, when needed, still.

When I am awake I resolve to be fully awake and alive to all possibilities.
To remember those who came before me and those who will come after.
I resolve to try and imagine 7 generations into the future at least 
once each day.

When I am asleep I resolve to switch off all of my power strips.
to remember my dreams and to learn from them.
to call upon all the lessons I've learned already.

To get up from the computer and dance.

I resolve to use the laptop and the street and the classroom to 
uphold the rights and dignity of all beings. To recognize both the 
power and the frailty of networks.

I resolve this year to not pass up any opportunity to offer my voice.
To not be ashamed by its weakness or shrink away from its rawness.

I resolve
to remember
that listening is an action.

To not be afraid.
of what is to come.

to become a hollow bone.

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Adriene Jenik (US) is a telecommunications media artist and Professor 
of Computer & Media Arts in the <http://visarts.ucsd.edu/>Visual Arts 
Department at UC San Diego. Her works combine "high" technology and 
human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and 
performance.
Renate
-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University