Cultural references from today can be used to understand history, as well. In the production of Smuggling Anthologies we have used the concept of smuggling as the focal term of analysis of divided Europe, proving there is something as a common European history. The concept, of course, today has a wider meaning, of politically incorrect discourse shift. Full reader is here: http://issuu.com/rijekammsu/docs/reader__1_
dr. sc. Ana Peraica independent scholar and freelance curator PERISTIL bb 21 000 Split Croatia tel: +385 21 344646 fax: +385 21 320284 [email protected] www.atelierperajica.com ------- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail may contain confidential information and is intended only for those named as recipients. Access by any other person will be considered unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any distribution, copying, reproduction or disclosure of its contents to third parties is strictly prohibited and shall be considered illegal. If you have received this e-mail message and are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender as soon as possible and destroy all existing copies. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Kath O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What in fact are we leaving behind for future generations on our hard > drives and cloud > repositories? And how will the technological culture of today be viewed > when these values are no longer decipherable. Are we in fact erasing our > historical past as we create it for the digital future? > > I think this is a real issue. though we try to save some things using > archives, the changing formats and technology (and speed of change) is > causing data to be lost or at the very least, harder/longer to > recover/republish (especially if they need converting later on). it's > covering both net art and personal items such as home photos which are > generally no longer printed, and home videos. I also wonder what future > archeologists will think of our surviving buried rubbish. so whilst I love > the net, I think it's important to go back to hand made physical art and > craft too. if there is some pulse in the future which wipes all the > technology we'll be left with a gap from our digital/online years. let's > hope the libraries survive. I've heard of projects such as printed copies > of Wikipedia, but I wonder how many they print and how distributed these > are. (plus how often as WP changes so quickly). in smaller communities such > as music communities (for one example), there's less event flyers printed > out - they are all online or (worse) only on Facebook as event listings, > which means they are lost over very short times. I suppose it's really up > to how much people care about these things, and whether they work towards > saving some of it or preparing for the future. > > looking forward to this month. checking out the artworks now - they're > looking great > thanks > > > On 3 March 2015 at 06:17, Randall Packer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> Here are some questions to consider: >> >> Are we in fact producing a cultural history that emanates from the >> language of computers? Are the cultural references of today increasingly >> coded in numerical values that will need to be compiled and encoded in the >> far future by curious historians of the 21st century? What in fact are we >> leaving behind for future generations on our hard drives and cloud >> repositories? And how will the technological culture of today be viewed >> when these values are no longer decipherable. Are we in fact erasing our >> historical past as we create it for the digital future? >> >> Randall >> >> [snip] >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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