>Have artists, once at the vanguard of cultural development, now become
>guinea pigs testing information technology software: research and
>development for the global capitalist machine?
Or has artists become willing participants in the technology game, leaving
the guinea pigs, and joining the rats in the race to become the president
of the technology led revolution?
And what is wrong with being in the R&D phase of the capitalist machine.
Strategically, its an interesting splace to be - to know how the
interactives of the near future will work - whether choice will be 'place
another bet' or 'pause for 10 seconds' ...
And what is cultural development? Isn't it a special branch of
Experimenta, Cinemedia, the OzCo and the AFC? Hand-out cultural development
and what do you get? Sometimes some great things for of course.
Maybe what this 'new' stuff has provided is dilution to what was once a
trademarkable domain. Contemporary media arts - for me - integrated media
arts - is no longer the domain of any one group. It can be tapped in to,
utilised, and exploited by many. And I don't think it is possible to have a
unifying document which prescribes the way forward.
But is their a possibility integrated media arts enabling a different type
of participation to occur producing different types of content leading to
different types of ideas resulting indifferent directions of futures? Or
has all this been said before?
I';d like to ask the question: How can this 'contemporary media arts' make
the world a better place? But maybe this is not an appropriate question.
Adios, Sam.
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hothouse: media arts discussion and action at the threshold of
technology and the 21st Century
MANIFESTO 2nd - 12th November 1999 Experimenta Media Arts
www.experimenta.org
