Re: <documenta X><blast> So what's your goal here?

Dmitry Shubin (keme@mail.nevalink.ru)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:24:01 +0400

Probably it's better (and with no doubt more interesting) to create
"virtual world spaces" than to speak about them?

Dmitry Shubin

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> From: Viktor A.Mazin <ppkab@dux.ru>
> To: blast@forum.documenta.de
> Subject: Re: <documenta X><blast> So what's your goal here?
> Date: 23 èþíÿ 1997 ã. 4:32
>
> Brandon Van Every wrote at 20.06.97 (before he announced his
> signoff from the list at 22.06.97, what is a pity(!)
>
> >Every hour that I spend on this list
> > *discussing* (say) virtual world spaces, is an hour that I could
> (should?)
> > have spent *implementing* virtual world spaces
>
> This night when I am sitting infront of the screen I started to think
that
> every
> hour I spend here is an hour that I could have spent in the 'real' world
> spaces.
> But what kind of 'reality' could replace seductive netspace? I could read
> a book and think about event horizon, I could sleep and see fascinating
> dreams,
> I could masturbate and have amusing fantasies, I could watch movies and
be
> caught
> by sweet fear. It is possible to 'implemente' into various world spaces
by
> using
> different tools. I wonder to know why virtual space is so attractive to
get
> me wired,
> how it effects me and what are exact differences and similarities
between
> 'traditional'
> representation of spatiality (in the picture, installation, photography)
> and
> cyberspace.

> Olessia Tourkina

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