Re: [-empyre-] Culturally specific archives

2010-10-09 Thread Jon Ippolito
Hi Johannes, Thanks for the provocative questions--forgive me if it takes more ink to answer than to ask them! On Oct 7, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Johannes Birringer wrote: am I correct I reading you as making a direct analogy between embodied cultural practices/techniques and digital media

Re: [-empyre-] Culturally specific archives

2010-10-09 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, I found a few of Jon's points very interesting and wanted to comment on a couple. I am a emerging electronic media artist who manifests his work in computational systems. I'm also a copyleftist and my academic and artist productions have been entirely FLOSS oriented since 2003.

Re: [-empyre-] Culturally specific archives | law

2010-10-09 Thread Jon Ippolito
Thanks, Ben, for this informed and important excursion into the dangers that copyright holds for preserving culture. I also much appreciated your larger conclusion that software is a form of culture. One of the chapters of the book Rick Rinehart and I are writing is called Death By Law--it

Re: [-empyre-] Culturally specific archives

2010-10-07 Thread Jon Ippolito
Hi Mona, On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Mona Jimenez wrote: While I am really interested in all the theory and problematizing and questioning -- and especially of course the archives themselves, I'm glad there are those out there who devote themselves to accessibility. Thanks for this update

Re: [-empyre-] Culturally specific archives

2010-10-07 Thread Johannes Birringer
hi all thanks Jon for this text excerpt from your writing, and it seems you are grappling in a very interesting way with Diana Taylor's potentially confusing so-called juxtaposition -- between the archive of supposedly enduring materials (i.e., texts, documents, buildings, bones) and the

Re: [-empyre-] Culturally specific archives

2010-10-06 Thread Mona Jimenez
-] Culturally specific archives To: soft_skinned_space emp...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au Hi Jon, Vanina, et al,, It's been great following the discussion and thank you for mentioning my work with culturally specific archives. A relevant project is the Mukurtu Archive (http://www.mukurtuarchive.org