[-empyre-] Elegies and Resonances

[Emily V Duke]

Hello Patrick!  I am Emily Vey Duke--I will be a guest on Empyre in a couple of weeks.  I wonder if you could cite the study about the internet and attention.  I missed it (because, I suppose, the internet), and I would love to take a look.


Thanks to all for the lively and moving thoughts.


Emily Vey Duke
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Professor | Department of Transmedia | Syracuse University
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From: empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Patrick Lichty <pl at voyd.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:15:40 AM
To: 'soft_skinned_space'
Subject: [-empyre-] Elegies and Resonances

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Hi.
Good to be back.
I'm just back from Turkey with my new wife, Negin Ehtesabian-Lichty, who I
met as national team leaders for Morehshin Allahyari's "My Day/Your Night"
project between the US-Iran seven years ago. As we wrestle with our eventual
return to the USA given Trump's idiocy, I am glad to begin to return to the
discursive fora.

I love the conversations that have been going on, and I regret having only
brief contact with a couple of the artists we are talking about this month,
and much more with some like Beatriz de Costa. All amazing people.

This gives me pause for thinking about the fact that the elegies for the
dead will not end in the foreseeable future, and the memories that are
shared are deeply moving.  I think even more so, as I am staring at 60 in a
few years, and I see the radical transformation of communities like Rhizome
in the past 15 years.

As I think about beginning tomorrow, I think memory and community is
something that is running in shorter supply as the Internet develops. Scale
increases, allowing for less attention, and as in a recent study, community
is dwindling in the age of the postinternet.  I think that what the artists
we have been discussing have done so well is perhaps not immediate community
in body, but in thought. Being tangential to the Fluxus Movement, I remember
Carolee and her powerful spirit well, and her sheer vulnerability through
works like Internal Scroll and Infinity Kisses.

But in many ways, I see the will to the Contemporary, especially here in the
UAE as not hospitable to many of the gestures that our remembered artists
did. I'm wondering about the ideas of bleeding memory through time and
finding ways for continuity in times when we are accelerating, especially in
ephemeral environments like Second Life, which I imagine will be a memory in
ten years.

I look forward to considering what knowledge we can build community around
as the digital seems to be ever faster and more fragmented.

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