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Judson Wright <judson@judson.net> repet!z!on = teachez human z repet!z!on = teachez humanz hij uds on!!!! >Sorry if this is old news, a re-post. i am empress kunigunde. >I agree with most of what has been said, even that it's not always a >practical option that walled galleries house computer art, that it >completely doesn't matter what materials are used (like a computer) >but what the end result communicates. > >In fact, unless something about the work is ESSENTIAL to a computer, >why mention it? > >I differ with the opinion that net art is not computer art, but only >on a purely technical level. > >Right now, how else are you going to get anything up there? Usually, >it has to exist on your hard drive before you can upload it. > >The "net" is just a storage medium, but one with international access >24 hours a day. In most cases, the work must exist as computer art >even if only for a few minutes. But it is also the big venue for >computer art. Net art is a SUBSET of computer art but the biggest >exhibition of computer art is currently on the net. > >1's and 0's are rarely of any consequence, as most artist rarely even >see them. How many people are doing work with just bit shifting >functions? > > >My beef is with the USER who proclaims to others that they are web >savvy and then visits a site with their hands in their lap. > >Eventually that will change. But for now, you could do that looking >at a painting and still "get" it. If you do that with interactive >work, you don't ever "get" it. interactive = 01 cheap + cheap + ver! verd! + cheap version of distraktiv. interactive = manual labor. should i wish to perform manual labor [do i +?] i can step into 01 `garden` and distrakted be + be >Of 100 artists who spend all day making art, most are supported by >parents, a few have supplemental related jobs (example: nn makes $ >from her NATO program, more of a tool for art than art, though I >admit a cool one, by itself it is not engaging, it requires a "host" >cell), as does nn. >it requires a "host" >cell), yes - you >more of a tool for art than art, more than art - korporat war fair. buy + relax - http://www.eusocial.com/infidel >some have part-time schedules for job and art. "artists - puh" vr!!endl!. nn >Several with extensive bibliographies still teach. [widespread smile -> art skool] - Netochka Nezvanova - a tree is primarily a phallic symbol 0f0003.MASCHIN3NKUNST - DEFORESTATION IS GOOOOOOOD!!!!!! @www.eusocial.com 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t^P | > e _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold