[-empyre-] 'real' networked art

[Paul Woodrow]

Julie
here is a chapter from Anna Munster's new book
its all about ...embodied perception !!!!

http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/

its on that site that I sent under Anna Munster

Paul
On 13-Oct-09, at 3:08 AM, Anna Munster wrote:

> Kazys, I'd like to move now to some more engagement with your actual  
> chapter contribution: 'The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the  
> Poetics of Reality' (http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/ 
> )
>
> In this chapter you marks a distinction between earlier network art  
> (Bunting, Shuglin, odi.org et al) and the 'web 1.0' period  during  
> which there was a  preoccupation with the medium of t e net itself  
> among many artists (using the properties of html code  etc) and  
> today's networked culture in which everything is networked or rather  
> the network is dispersed diffusely throughout all aspects of  
> culture. Your position (sorry to simplify!) is that the reality of a  
> networked world becomes a preoccupation itself, in fact a kind of    
> preoccupation with the 'reality' of media. In turn, this leads to a  
> set of cultural/artistic tactical manoeuvres:
>
> "On the contrary, the fascination with the real in “reality” media,  
> be it reality TV, amateur-generated content, or professional “art”  
> is constructed around specific tactics: self-exposure, information  
> visualization, the documentarian turn, remix, and participation."
>
> However, I 'd also point to the 'big' statement by net artists of  
> the '90s encapsulated by jodi's comment: 'Net artists live on the  
> net'.( that's a paraphrase btw). So, I'd contend that in fact this  
> preoccupation with the 'real' of networking actually begins with  
> these earlier artists and that it might be something of a false  
> (although currently fashionable) position to institute too much of a  
> break  at least in terms of aesthetics  between earlier and  
> contemporary network cultures.
>
> Just wondering what your response to this might be...
>
> best
> Anna
>
>
>
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