Dear Patrick and all,
Sorry for the glitch in the direct subscription sign up off from the empyre
home page. Just send requests in an email to empyre soft-skinned space and
we will sign you up manually. No problem at all. Patrick I'm really
looking forward to this great line up of guests. On th
It is with great pleasure that I introduce this month’s subject of “Glitched,
Cracked, and Dirty Media”, featuring a list of wonderful scholars and
practitioners in the degradation of the signal/datastream as artform. There
are many perspectives on this set of practices, so I will only say that
Dear Johannes,
We invited four guest discussants initially, then another four the
following week plus received forty-eight personal emails from NeMe's
mailing list of over 1800 subscribers who expressed their intention to
contribute. Some of these people were from Cyprus, China, Lebanon,
Croatia,
Dear Iannis:
yes, but there has to be an interest in discussing the critique,
or maybe a moment to give pause and ask ourselves why this space? and why
would anyone care if mostly the 'discourse', as you suggest, is in any case
exclusive or intimidating,
and some, as Simon says, may not be u
Dear Johannes,
To answer briefly: I believe it would be useful to discuss the critique,
especially if it leads us to review what has been written and try to summarise
the different thoughts, in order to find common ground, possibly "translate" to
a common language, and finally above all to id
Hi All,
Simon's analysis is totally succinct. Even stranger is a retreat
within new media back to video exhibitions. Seems like they're
cheaper and easier than interactive works. I believe the new media
artist has a place in the digital design chain as the artist NOT a
designer. This is a
This is not a new debate and predates list serves. I remember being at an arts
conference, mainly of practitioners, back in 1982 or thereabouts (Artists' Week
at the Adelaide Festival) and there were a few (now well known) international
theorists presenting as well. It was at the time that post-
dear Yannis and Helene, dear all,
i believe the critique, offered very modestly by last month's discussion
moderators, concerns us all, and is addressed to the those who make or partake
or belong to such a soft_skinned community or, to use a less optimistic term,
'space', -and perhaps the c
