[-empyre-] denied distances - wrapping it up / thanks!

[Timothy Murray]

Gabriel,

Thanks ever so much for such a fantastic month.  I'm so sorry that 
many travels have kept me quiet this month.  I've been following the 
conversation passionately, especially since the tone of the dialogue 
so much questions conventional assumptions about "the screen" and 
re-places notions of the gaze, projection, and the "subject" into the 
more fluid fields of space, reflection, sound, and reverberations. 
I've been meaning to send along a longer post commenting on how 
interested I am that so many of this month's posts dialogue 
indirectly, and certainly unintentionally, with the thesis guiding my 
recent book, Digital Baroque, that various platforms of new media art 
and experimental cinematic installation involve a fundamental 
archeological shift away from authoritative assumptions regarding 
linear visual projection (from single-point perspective to 
cartographical points and the reasoned subject) to multivalent 
spaces, places, and soundings of nonlinear temporal folds intrinsic 
to the digital form.  I look forward to elaborating on this in the 
coming month.

Welcome to the fall from the beautiful shores of Lake Como in Italy.

Best,

Tim



>Dear all:
>
>The bitniks' last posts put us in a good position to wrap the things
>up, suggesting how the experience of fleetings image on a screen can
>be reconnected to the wider range of practices that constitute media
>circuits - and indeed society.
>
>I hope the debate reverberated to everyone as well as it did for me.
>I'd like to thank all those that contributed, especially the guests,
>who very kindly accepted the invitation to participate. It was
>terrific to hear from all of you, whose artistic work and research
>inspired this discussion in the first place!
>
>Thanks as well to Renate, Tim, Christina and Marcus, for giving me the
>opportunity of this first-run moderation - and apologies for any
>mistake I may have made in the course!
>
>Best regards!
>Menotti
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-- 
Timothy Murray
Director, Society for the Humanities
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
A. D. White House
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853