I'd like to discuss projects which bridge the real and >the virtual. >Work where the online side is a part of something bigger, and uses the >interaction between the real and virtual to create new ways of thinking >about both. >Things like that Perry Hoberman piece which had a virtual room, a toy >room and a real room where it was a Sisyphean toil to keep them aligned... >Also things like this... > >"Art Resaux's 'Connect' : Several international locations are linked via >fax connections, each location having two fax machines, one receiving, >the other sending. The two machines are linked by a single roll of paper >which constantly emerges from the receiver and tracks down a long table >before being consumed by the sending system. While on the table, >participants add to the content with drawing materials and collage. The >piece is a complete loop which simultaneously connects all participants >regardless of the geographical location. The long fax 'scrolls' that >emerged were exhibited at the Art Reseaux exhibition at the Gallerie >Bernanos in Paris in April 1992."
There is a lot of talk about web art and it's increwsingly framed as an autonomous area ,seperate from non-digital media. it makes things very easy for curators and venues to think of a simple binary continuum; net.art which deals with the conditions and data experience of the web itself, and an implicitly inferior area of "everything else." But artists engage with new media practices in much more complex ways than this. New media practice can be a part of the work, not the whole thing. The work can focus on the relation between physical world and digital representation, and the links enabled between people. There's the whole idea of "telematic art" as described by Roy ascott and others where the technology functions in the manner of a telephone call, not as world-substitute. So I'm interested in this area of the mixed practice, the partly digital, the impure genre. Any opinions? regards from Gair " > ------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------
