Re: <documenta X><blast> OSdX, Old School!: a forum on spatial
Morgan Garwood (mgarwood@inch.com)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:38:13 -0400
>words is a list like this so backward, both in its technology as in its
>arguments? It must be a budget problem? Think about the _informed_
>discussion you would have hosted when indeed you would supply more angles,
>interpretations, when You would have _invested_ in a concept and format for
>the list, beyond 'discussion', beyond lecturing, beyond endless repetition,
>quoting. Adding the '100 days' budget to this list would have done the
>trick, but i'm not gonna blame you all Catherine's (too much, wrong
>academia) mistakes, get used to abundancy and take a stand pro-choice, its
>markets are alternative politics, we are the media, so don't support your
>authors---
>
>again, I was trying to get more deeply into the
>
><participants' names (: you have 71, of which 28 only contributed once and
>12 did over 10 posts, since June 12>
>
>intended discussion, but my frustration about the informational quality of
>the list interrupted my effort. I'll be back on it but this is precisely
>why art is dragging behind technology, communication, commerce, and new
>literacy will not develop.
>
>Indeed we're lost in Media Space, Old School Academics, Mass Emancipation,
>Faux Heroism.
>
>Jouke Kleerebezem Amsterdam
>
>(thnx jean-philippe h., for being the artist who could not imagine
>'information space' -- le petit prince)
>
>PS: why artists only see technology -- they have forgotten about art?
>unlike the rest of us!
>
>PPS: a succesful list reaches a certain point at which it is ready for a roll
>
you've got all the above right, dude! "Art", whatever that means in the
here and now, is subject to Newton's third law... an object in motion in a
direction remains in motion in that direction until an outside force acts
on it....
Unlike the Russian Federation's experience, there's no shock therapy for
this part of the world, because nobody gives a damn. Nobody gives a damn
because we're going through the same sort of shift when the Cult of Culture
started to displace religious faith in earnest in the 19th century... A
deeply embedded belief system about the "necessity of culure" grew fat,
complacent and intellectually hubristic... not realizing that "the
importance of culture" might become as quaint an artifact as the
"centrality of religion". Well, swallow that meth-amphetamine and hit the
road Jack, because we're in a new Zone now... I believe Andrei Tarkovsky
would understand it better than Charlie Rose; welcome to the land of
Standardized Mediocrity Zeks !
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