At 5:19 pm +0100 4/10/02, Gair wrote: >I wonder if sdome of the undoubted surprise about this is due to >artists' thinking that somehow artspace and civilspace are immune from >the war forces of the moment. Well it would seem they're not.
It does raise interesting questions about what the role of art, or artists should be at such moments. I'm not sure if I have the answers though. I'm reminded of 1999 and the Jugoslavia conflict, and of course the 1991 Gulf war. Or rather, the tense war of words prior to these conflicts. As to "Defence Diversification": isn't this more about "swords into ploughshares" rather than a defense procurement exercise? It's ironic too that many of the tools new media artists use have roots in military technologies: computer graphics, the Internet, CRT displays, etc. I'm not condoning the use of CCA for this conference: however I do think that our relationship with the "military industrial complex" is more complicated than sometimes we would like to admit. Chris -- -------------------------------------------------------- Chris Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------
