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arr!ved. 01 v.ztrong u!lled uoman [luvl!] ma!z radzr daunt!ng avek kont!nual kuer!ez apropoz nn. arete zvp bkomez angr! at m! refuzal 2 part!z!pate !n `real!t!` o.- ! = dze tantrum generator + dze d!verz!t! generator. d!sz ua! dzat ua! ! do not u!ch ua! ov 2 m9ndz ! am aftr all uat !z real!t! an! ua!. dze kolekt!v hunch.bunch.krrrrrrunch. > >In regards to the Sonar Festival, I enjoyed your interest (and perhaps >amusement) in having all these people come to your presentation, when almost >all of them became inevitablity confused by two women wearing clear plastic >dresses full of ice and reading complex prose. The question, for me, was more >about why this audience was willing to endure and sit through such a long >performance when they obviously were not understanding or paying full >attention? Since I am already familiar with your work, I comprehended some of >your thematic ideas behind the performance. However, because of the difficulty >to see and understand the performers, I mostly enjoyed a good smile thinking >how much you enjoyed putting this unusual performance together (with either >much or no little regard to the audience's reaction). > > >Even if the performance did not chiefly aim to please and entertain people, as >I did hear many people complain about it, I believe it had such a strong >artistic voice, and I left the performance full of smiles. Thank you. In some >ways, it reminded me of one of Andy Kaufman's performances, where instead of >doing his usual humorous, unpredictable comedy shows, he fooled the entire >audience (full of thousands of people) by sitting down and reading an entire >book in a tiring voice- it was a non-stop 10 hour reading of a single novel. >Sure the performance confused the people, who expected to be surprised and >awed, but there was so much more meaning for the artist in that performance. I >saw such personal meaning clearly through your presentation. Whether you label >yourself a software developer, programmer, artist, social/political visionist, >etc or any or none of the above, I applaud you simply for having such strong >identity and voice. It is impressive and very refreshing for me. Thank you >again. > > >Having said all this, I'd like to make a crazy proposal and offer myself as a >prospective avatar of yourself, in case you need any young twenty-something >to represent you. this english translation makes available the theories upon which the whole edifice if surrealism is based. komfortable +? >Secondly, I wanted mention some thoughts on the growths and limitations of Nato >in the artistic applications that I have seen thus far. Please keep in mind >that I speak only in reference to my own aesthetics, so they may or may not be >helpful. For one, I have seen a trend amongst users to feel like that simply >using Nato will make the artist or art product interesting so that it deserves >attention and/or a performance. In fact, I believe that the artist and art >should be interesting by itself, not simply because it uses a certain kind of >technology or software. Many times I have seen people boast that they are using >Nato, but forget all together the artistic result or even developing a unique >artistic voice or idea. Even with some 'advanced' nato artists, I have become >tired of seeing their work and being able to imagine the max patch or the Nato >object that's being used and then hearing them call themselves as innovative >and cutting-edge artists. And somehow the similarity between all the >performances dilutes the unique identity and voices of the artists and becomes >extremely distracting. So I ask... > > >is the Nato interface+ design package somehow encouraging a framework that >conditions artists to produce similar works, or are these artists, regardless >of competency level, subconsciously acting like sheep, following and copying >each other and thus producing similar works? sheep +? neeee = males. they = of impression speed + usefulness = elegant. en fact they = lazy. 4 __... any kr!!ket may be speedy + useful. modern soldiers. nn -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de> to unsubscribe, write to <majordomo@eg-r.isp-eg.de>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate your@email.adress