I have recently, from research and observation and after thoughts of the event at CCA, been thinking about networks...I am giving a talk this evening at Gmac and have been struggling to have a slant on what I wanted to say...its about networks,social networks, the digital divide in the conext of digital art projects I work on. I consider myself relatively new to the research end of this 'stuff' and have in the past been more involved as a user/abuser ...in any case,some things that Eric said at the CCA made me think more...
I found this from Pierre Levy.. How do you define cyberculture? " It is not the culture of the fanatics of Internet, it is a major transformation of the concept of culture. And it is not easily separable other social transformations which we know since 20 to 25 years: the urbanization galopante; rise of the level of education; economic universalization; the development of the contacts between cultures. Humanity is meeting itself. Internet is for me a species of mat�rialisation of the "universel without totality", it is that there is no center of the network, it does not have a single direction. Each time you have a new node in the network, a new site, a new newsgroup, a new subscriber, you have a new source of heterogeneity and diversity. For ten years, you have had more and more languages, topics approached, countries concerned. It is an absolutely enthralling process to observe." Now I know that this is a little grand but put with Erics's point that there is no such thing as a global community, only a series of smaller networks which are part of the global picture then thats where the strength of these networks lie. I ask do not most of us, within social and electronic networks we take part, cross over continuously...for example, going to a social/event, where you meet someone who knows someone you've had electronic network communications with..etc vice versa...or, more recently, Bev's thought of having name tags at the CCA event because she wanted to meet some of the ambit subscribers who she'd been networking with..but didn't know what they looked like...I think this works locally and remotely. They behave the same these 2 networks,or smaller networks crashing into other smaller networks....I'm not into name tags but I like the idea of meeting someone I've been emailing with, then happening to come across them in some sort of social/event/thing. In any event, none of this is useful unless you have access to the networking world and can take part in this aspect of networking. hmmm...still thinking...questions...questions. If anyone can suggest some good reading material for me, I'd love to hear it Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
