Nils Röller on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:59:27 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Towards Cusco from Mariategui/Röller |
Towards Cusco-Manifesto We need a warm-time-machine. The Internet is becoming more and more a time-machine, that homogenizes worldwide relations. We do believe that this needs a new warm input. Today's input comes from a northwestern time-structure. We do not question single enterprises like the international space station, we want to build our a time-space-station in Cusco. Cusco is more than Venice. It is not only a nice counterpart of the world, not only a system of channels, that is permanently overfludded by international tourism, it is more and it is different. It is a compass for ideas and a habitat to develop critical creativity. Why? Because Cusco is a place in between: between inca-past and global future. Global future will be conditioned by electronic networks. The inca-past was conditioned by a non-literal network. Today Cusco is overfludded by international tourists that do want to adventure the existing botanic jungle and also the hidden jungle of precolumbian history. This history was not written. Is was only interpreted by the writers of the western colonizers, that did represent the Inca knowledge in a medium that is strange to its individual structure. We will question this structure. Our structure of approaching Cusco is the difference machine. The difference machine starts to work, when different media techniques are in conflict. Our warm-time-machine works with the energy of this conflict. Going towards Cusco converts a hybrid energy. McLuhan said that the artist is able to realize how new media techniques will change common time-space-feeling. Cusco is different. It enables to realize how networks in past and future can merge together. We do invite artists and scientists to use their insight into timespace-architectures. We ask them to take examples of precolumbian work. For us a a vase found in an inca tomb or corns of amaranth are not only elements of a past tradition nice to gaze at. They are traces of another time-space structure. We do encourage artists to invest in a special stock market. We trade with visual robbery and we do aks artists to rework and reflect the robbery of western treasure-hunters. This reflection will allow us to createt resources for the warm-time-machine: to build step by step the Cusco Academy. Towards Cusco-Manifesto We need a warm-time-machine. The Internet is becoming more and more a time-machine, that homogenizes worldwide relations. We do believe that this needs a new warm input. Today's input comes from a northwestern time-structure. We do not question single enterprises like the international space station, we want to build our a time-space-station in Cusco. Cusco is more than Venice. It is not only a nice counterpart of the world, not only a system of channels, that is permanently overfludded by international tourism, it is more and it is different. It is a compass for ideas and a habitat to develop critical creativity. Why? Because Cusco is a place in between: between inca-past and global future. Global future will be conditioned by electronic networks. The inca-past was conditioned by a non-literal network. Today Cusco is overfludded by international tourists that do want to adventure the existing botanic jungle and also the hidden jungle of precolumbian history. This history was not written. Is was only interpreted by the writers of the western colonizers, that did represent the Inca knowledge in a medium that is strange to its individual structure. We will question this structure. Our structure of approaching Cusco is the difference machine. The difference machine starts to work, when different media techniques are in conflict. Our warm-time-machine works with the energy of this conflict. Going towards Cusco converts a hybrid energy. McLuhan said that the artist is able to realize how new media techniques will change common time-space-feeling. Cusco is different. It enables to realize how networks in past and future can merge together. We do invite artists and scientists to use their insight into timespace-architectures. We ask them to take examples of precolumbian work. For us a a vase found in an inca tomb or corns of amaranth are not only elements of a past tradition nice to gaze at. They are traces of another time-space structure. We do encourage artists to invest in a special stock market. We trade with visual robbery and we do aks artists to rework and reflect the robbery of western treasure-hunters. This reflection will allow us to createt resources for the warm-time-machine: to build step by step the Cusco Academy. _________________________________________________________________ Downloaden Sie MSN Explorer kostenlos unter http://explorer.msn.de/intl.asp # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net