HI Curt,Ruth all I very much enjoyed both Curt's EVP essay and the essay/interview with Karen Blisset of Ruth's posted a little earlier this week. Both deal with complex issues in a way that is refreshingly free of jargon. I'm beginning to feel that a striving towards clarity is almost a moral imperative, that the kind of theoretical oneupmanship & obfuscation which characterises so much art writing marches in a curious way hand in hand with the ever more marketised art world. Much of it, in my gloomier moments, recalls the antics of snake oil salesmen, witting or no. In neither instance am I sure that I accept the whole of your case. Of course this doesn't matter a jot because I can turn over your arguments in my head and come to a perspective of my own, which will incorporate some but not all of what you both assert. That seems to me a valuable thing to be able to do. Unusually I read both of your pieces twice and got more food for thought each time.
I enjoyed the videos to which your essay is appended Curt, but I have to confess I enjoyed the Playdamage distillation more -there's an immediacy, a potency, about it which your very carefully wrought and extremely smart videos somehow don't quite have, for me at least, although there is a great deal to admire in them. best wishes michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:28 PM Subject: [NetBehaviour] Static Trapped in Mouths / Electronic Brain Violence, Creepy Pasta, and Undecidable Texture Hi All, Here is some new art I made and a new essay I wrote for the wonderful Electronic Voice Phenomena project: http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/curt-cloninger-static-trapped-in-mouths/ Best, Curt _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
