I don't have 500,000 files. I maybe have 100,000 but the ones that are up
are considerably less at any time. There are 5700 at the site; I probably
have another 500 at espdisk, but maybe a lot less than that. The ones that
are up are maybe 1/4th of the ones that have been up, so I'm thinking
maybe 25,000 at most. Then there are maybe 90,000 files that haven't been
put up - for shows, or videos that are too long, etc. So say 100k - I
think most people have done that much. With filmwork or earlier video
work, I was prolific, but that work seems unshowable and irretrievable now
- maybe 25-30 hours of finished 8mm, S8, and 16mm film work (mostly the
last), for example.
It's a continuous practice for me; it also reflects a lack of venues or
supporting institutions, so everything's done in our place. Currently I'm
working on this new cd, and here's our sound studio -
http://www.alansondheim.org/studio.jpg - we wait until the heat goes off
and the bars aren't operating and things get quiet.
It's more something that Andy Hawks wrote years ago, in the early 90s -
"i've said before, i feel these wires." - living in the wires, in the
fiber, in the em transmissions - we all do this.
Jerome's Vulgate Bible in the Douay-Rheims translation, has God saying
"Fiat lux." - "Be light made." I like that; what we're doing is making
light, however dark against the forces that threaten to swamp us all. It
what we do, what all of us can do. And the passive tense implies that it
will come about anyway.
- Thanks, Alan
I actually feel kind of embarrassed by your comments, thanks -
- Alan
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Randall Packer wrote:
Alan Sondheim is the consummate net practitioner who believe in the power
of information: whose work is a monumental information sculpture, a
streaming torrent and FEED of images, sound, and poetic utterances that
flow and flow and flow. The mailing list is his mis-en-scene, the stage
from which he launches his epic monologues and net-based play. We can all
learn from Alan as we grasp for meaning in the sheer ever-present-present
abundance of the NOW.
On 3/23/15, 2:44 AM, "Johannes Birringer"
<[email protected]> wrote:
that was a bit of a shock, Randall, you worked on an index of Alan's
published online stuff --
and you came up with half a million files? I knew Alan was prolific,
but this is nothing
but unbelievable. Are all the works still available / alive online?
regards
Johannes
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