philip pocock on Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:32:01 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> pocock's boycotts |
LOL K, well, in the Metamorphosis, didnt the world stem from 'chaos'. the boycott i intend is an open discussion about what you term ''big end' media art'. discourse is democracy. and our streets are here. manovich is free to answer and i am sure he will prepare with his text. i shoot from the hip since its emailspace here. maybe out of our discussion some idea as to where time is traveling will emerge, and dead ends like soft cinema will go the way of the dinosaur database ideas they promote obscuring any horizon that they promise without success. same goes for 'big ticket' items likej. shaw's mechanically engineered media theatrics. the cost of one, like the energy-sucking dome in the zkm now, could pay for a small contingent of programmers from the diaspora to connect. understanding can only emerge if it is possible. why not in iraq, where database cinema gets the word algorithm from the name from a ancient baghdad mathematician? the daimler-chrysler light shows of 'big end' media art from the australia-based promoter (shaw) do little that 60s world's fairs didnt to mark that 'golden age' some dropped out from, and now dissolving in an acidic world climate if media culture conversation doesnt begin to get over such industrial antics like shaw's, lending factory CEOs the greedy feeling that they are not far from creating vehicles with the same magic as what they might think art to be. that fills one or two pockets, but it empties the collective one, ie nettime!, and fuels more disparity, choking young initiatives, misunderstanding all the while what media art can invent. if only dinosuars were as graceful as that dancing disney hippo. media is arguably the state dept. of the moment. and it is not pixel-prettied tv news (manovich) or industrial-strength (j. shaw) dragging its heels in territory people don't believe for good reason any longer. media, even if understood, has huge problems yet new potentials. hoping to get some insight here. after the dinosaurs... primates allopatrically speciated. no longer fearing the t-rex, primates became diurnal. ddaytime activity meant color vision evolved. now we got the rainbow coalition of the unwilling (yeah!) :) you mention history boycotting. isnt history just the practice of searching for the 'now' as it occurred at previous times? and then there is the more curious, 'now what?' Am Sunday den, 16. February 2003, um 02:10, schrieb McKenzie Wark: > > Betreff: <nettime> pocock's boycotts > Antwort an: "McKenzie Wark" <mckenziewark@hotmail.com> > > philip pocock gabelsbergerstr. 1 d-76135 karlsruhe germany mobile/sms +49 1707 369 870 tel +49 721 845 715 fax +49 721 830 2714 the more we share, the more we have. - l.nimoy _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold