Re: <eyebeam><blast> Internet, modernisation and net.art

[Thom Gillespie <thom@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>]

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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Lev Manovich wrote:

> On the imposibility of "national schools" on net.art

I think the essence is the same as McLuhan said in 64, "the medium is
the message" ... and the medium is you and I. Stewart Brand reinterated
it when he said the content of the WELL and ultimately all online orgs
is the folks. You can see this with the continued elimination of the
content-providers from AOL, MSNBC, etc.

Since there aren't national schools in real time these days there won't
be national schools on net.art but there will be wild regionalists with
point-of-view probably playing mediaJazz at all hours of the night and
day.

Thoughts?

--Thom




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