(I tried to send this email to the list some time ago when the server
went down (to no avail) so I thought that I would try again......)
I worry about the term new media arts as new technologies are old as
soon as they are invented much less dispersed for the marketplace. I
also worry about the cult of the new without acknowledging the old, look
at the Balkans War, look at Damien Hurst.
Call me an idealist but I envisage a trend in the next few years or
perhaps the next while, where an underbelly of rawer artworks
transgress the so called new media works and digital hype is viewed as
old hat or merely complicit with multinational (new) media moguls.
Did you hype the power of video or the television?
Be brash. Be critical.
Keely
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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
