On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Johannes Birringer wrote:
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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).
Sandy Baldwin wrote me something about this and I've been pondering this,
thinking of IRC for example as fundamentally not archived at all; it
'smears' as high speed. I did some pieces which were inteventions into IRC
channels and managed of course to log some of them.
I put up work hopefully that can stand on its own, not just as documenta-
tion of an event; if I put up for example I piece of music played live,
I'll try to create the room resonance artificially to give some idea of
what it sounded like. I haven't solved the problem of metadata or even how
to label my work - for example I have examples of ice/snow/blizzard/drift
images - maybe over 1000 - taken in different situations at different
times - and they're all over the place. If I use one as a key to, say, a
video, then I might change the name/title and the sequence is wrecked. In
any case I try to archive what I do - it goes onto hard drives and
hopefully then to one or another archive. In a way I'm at a loss.
There's also the issue of interactivity; I remember Jim Andrews saying my
work wasn't digital because it wasn't interactive. But if anyone has gone
into the virtual world pieces I've done, it's fully interactive that way.
On the other hand, other than work in Visual Basic I did years ago, most
of my codework pieces are just static; on the other hand again, I can pass
on the perl or awk programs I've done to anyone who wants them. It
complicated for me.
(I remember growing up learning in school that B?chner 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).
Well, Chatterton wrote less, Balzac and Sartre wrote more; it's not a
question of quantity but of practice/praxis. And there are very few, say,
jazz musicians who are known for one stunning solo and that's it. So I
think of what I do as that kind of thing, continuous practice, continuous
meditation. It's a different way of working.
So now I worry about the multitudes, Alan.
(and the digital humanities, naturally)
I don't worry about the digital humanities at all; I worry in fact about
the analog humanities. In spite of the idea that all human knowledge is at
our fingertips - it isn't - I have books over 100-200 years old that exist
in no copies, online or off, whatsoever. And libraries of course are under
attack as hopelessly out of date, so a great deal is being lost.
- Alan
regards
Johannes
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Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 12:19 AM
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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
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] The Archives of Alan Sondheim
Net Behavior: the prolific artist immersed in the FEED:
Index of / Alan Sondheim
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