[-empyre-] Paul Vanouse: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Renate Ferro]

Resolutions as a techno-artist and educator. 
Techno-resolutions to quell notions of 
Techno(determinist)-revolutions.  Numbers 1-2.

(1) The next time someone says "the 
underdeveloped world lacks the infrastructure 
toŠ" suggest to them that the overdeveloped world 
has too much infrastructure (particularly in the 
realm of corporate law and bureaucracy) to 
accomplish much either.
(2) The next time someone says "this is the 
genomic age when we are curing lots of terminal 
diseases," point out to them that research in the 
past 25 years has actually cured the fewest 
terminal diseases of any 25 year period since the 
late 1800s.

These (and similar) resolutions (while admittedly 
not super optimistic;-) are hoped to provide a 
more realistic assessment of the present, for 
more productive discussions about the future.

bio: Paul Vanouse (US) is an artist working in 
Emerging Media forms.  Radical 
interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism 
guide his practice. Since the early 1990s his 
artwork has addressed complex issues raised by 
varied new techno-sciences using these very 
techno-sciences as a medium. He is an Associate 
Professor of Visual Studies at the University at 
Buffalo, New York.
-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University