dear all Randall's comment is a beautiful one, and obviously also an homage to a living and working artist many of us know and respect. I have not pondered Alan's reply yet; my reference to half a million works/files was a biblical expression, as in "multitudes." What you now mention however is interesting to ponder (well, Alan uses I would assume many mailiing lists or online fora for the staging and dissemination of this flow or feed as you call it, and also he performs with others in real world sites (like the recent concerts), then uploads images and music or videos...)..and it is interesting to me to ask (if you refer to an index of the now/ever present) whether this upload to the online mise en scènes builds and expands an archive or archives, to an ever widening scope, how such an archive is indexable if the performances or works also operate in gray zones, in porous areas between ground and online, and what happens to the age/ing, the years, of the digital and predigital works, and those not indexed or archivable. And as a question about art archives, it would be something I've not pondered really, regarding say what the folks over on the empyre list discuss this month as "metadata" etc "quantifications" in the age of digital humanities (and as an intervention of new technologies into the model of knowledge formation of modern universities).
(I remember growing up learning in school that Büchner had written only 4 plays and a short story; one play was lost, and 'Woyzeck' was found in a fragmented state. I always liked that, and Alban Berg even got that fragment wrong, and called it Wozzeck). So now I worry about the multitudes, Alan. (and the digital humanities, naturally) regards Johannes ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Randall Packer [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 12:19 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] The Archives of Alan Sondheim! 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 > > >________________________________________ >From: [email protected] >[[email protected]] on behalf of Randall Packer >[[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:01 AM >To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >Subject: [NetBehaviour] The Archives of Alan Sondheim > >Net Behavior: the prolific artist immersed in the FEED: >Index of / Alan Sondheim > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
