Hi Alan,
> I think I get more responses on dedicated Facebook pages than in the
>general broadcasts. And Facebook itself has gotten increasingly noisy
over
>the years. G+ is quiet, but it's almost like a tomb - I never have
responses
>there and even DJ Spooky seems to get close to none. I wouldn't be
>surprised if G+ is canceled soon.
I think a plus side to Facebook (putting aside its evilness) is its
visual impact, and our eyes just love looking at shapes and colours.
Google plus does not have this element, or email lists. having said this
I am pro email lists because of its ethical and social contexts etc…
> MacGrid is still under development, but there are 320 servers. I
think there
>are a number of technical issues that are taking time to work out. I'm
going to
>Hamilton to meet with one of the organizers again; we're going to
collaborate
>on some pieces. The big advantage is that it really feels like an
empty gallery
>space, very supple, without the baggage of Linden Labs. I wonder if
Furtherfield
>would be interested in participating - I could bring that up.
yes, that would be interesting. keep me in the loop ;-)
> I'm amazed at how close the abject is to the so-called clean and
proper world
>we inhabit. Thinking about Nigeria, the Ukraine, the US - just beneath
the
>surface, things are ready to dissolve, and bodies in so many ways are
at stake.
Our bodies tend to remind us with a jolt —— we are not computers and
life is not an object, but we are dying micro-systems feeding a larger
ecosystem and this is beyond our control ;-)
wishing you well.
marc
On Thu, 8 May 2014, marc garrett wrote:
Hi Alan,
I so love looking at artworks posted by people on the list. It feels
more real than on Facebook for example which is a kind of throw away
experience. Mainly because those on Facebook (including myself) are
in competition with each other for attention. Which is OK really, how
else are artists going to get their work seen beyond institutional
curatorial remits. At least, on here you know what the context is
regarding a more focused, nuanced & collective intentions with
related crossovers.
I think I get more responses on dedicated Facebook pages than in the
general broadcasts. And Facebook itself has gotten increasingly noisy
over the years. G+ is quiet, but it's almost like a tomb - I never
have responses there and even DJ Spooky seems to get close to none. I
wouldn't be surprised if G+ is canceled soon.
Getting back to your suicide piece - I watched the video and enjoyed
viewing your real-time interactions - or rather the recording of it
in macGRID, OpenSim platform. Which is a ?a robust, archivable,
simulation research platform and a corresponding network of academic,
industry and community partners who wish to engage in
multidisciplinary research and creation, and resource and knowledge
sharing, using avatar virtual worlds and mixed reality systems
(currently with OpenSim).?
MacGrid is still under development, but there are 320 servers. I think
there are a number of technical issues that are taking time to work
out. I'm going to Hamilton to meet with one of the organizers again;
we're going to collaborate on some pieces. The big advantage is that
it really feels like an empty gallery space, very supple, without the
baggage of Linden Labs. I wonder if Furtherfield would be interested
in participating - I could bring that up.
Reading the accompanying txt is a mind-bend?
with words like?
?embryo suicide like now i think of and hillsO gnawed-blade hole
tourniquet punished by foaMDo listen to all smallthing leaping,
say AlanFear deep death do suicide.I would die. want am so
fantasy. suicide, Nikuko [someone threatens suicide: does s/he
really?] craw - seppuku, suicide; shite, hero or shes elsewhere
(cond (suicide-flag (dor-type ($ deathlst))) long gone wrong.
"commit suicide."
Yes, filled w/ trajectories that twist and then die out, chaos theory
stuff.
This particular work pulls me into something you wrote in recent your
book 'Writing Under'.
In a chapter called 'Wryting And' you say...
"Wryting is clotted inscription, that is, writing inextricably merged
with the flesh, body, organism; culture is the systemics and poetry
of wryting."
This sentence is just so - what can I say?
It's so right in there, in the crux, in the dirt, the mesh of it all...
I'm amazed at how close the abject is to the so-called clean and
proper world we inhabit. Thinking about Nigeria, the Ukraine, the US -
just beneath the surface, things are ready to dissolve, and bodies in
so many ways are at stake.
thanks Alan...
Thanks marc!
marc
suicide - please I beg of you, watch this -
http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.mp4
http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.txt
http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.png
work shot in MacGrid - please, I beg you, watch this -
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