Re: <documenta X><blast> navigating institutional spaces

Eve Andree Laramee (wander@earthlink.net)
Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:22:56 -0700 (PDT)

Anita Greenhill wrote:
> Not possible, imposible, why do you want to do
>it anyhow? There was not enough equiptment, not enough interest, not enough
>time. This is not the correct place (institution) to try anything new or
>different.

Institutions always think they know better.

>Just read your paper and maintain the necessary boundaries.
>Run away little girl.

ran right to hum.gu.edu.au
then on to "Australian Women on the Internet"
<www.abc.net.au/http/info/survy.htm>
check it out, guys

To reiterate Joukee's questions:
>>where's your meta-content information? How many subscribed do you have? Of
>>each
>>sex. Where are they from? Why not give some demographics. Publish/expose
>>the whole Lurkership. Who are/is the list? With all your
>>identity/subjectivity psychologizing/politicizing there's some simple Qs to
>>be answered by setting free the list. Allow some interaction outside the
>>discourse. A little search engine to start with? Mapping possibilities? An
>>expert summary?
Jordan, what do you think about this?

Demographics are relevant in that they could open up the discussion to
other conceptual schemes and frameworks from other standpoints. It may
reveal not only shared interests, but also shared assumptions and
predjudices about the *meanings* and *practices* and *escapades*
cybercultureartspace (Cyberkulturekunstraum?) not only the *references* and
heaps of quotations about it.

The request of Anita Greenhill for a
> live or not so live linkup
implies a more vulnerable (and therefore riskier) interaction between
observer and observed, it opens up zones of different histories, different
bodies, different social customs. It's boring to see someone read a
quotation from a book, but it sure can look impressive in hard text and it
sounds pretty authoritative too. Who is here anyways? If the postings are
being generated by only a minute sector, then this "forum" is contractive
rather than expansive.

A word that keeps coming to my mind is intervention, not interactivity.
Eve

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