Johannes, you remind me of the session we had at Univ. of Westminster a couple of years on digital curation, in which even the digital curators all disagreed in their understanding of what it is they do for a living. So for us mere mortal artists creating an abundance of media that must someday find its ³digital afterlife,² I say, if you really think about it, it¹s quite discouraging and even existentially traumatizing to consider what will happen to all your media and digital output when you pass from the world. So when I look at what Alan is doing I am just thinking it is a noble exercise in preparation for the eventful moment when the feed simply expires, as it must do eventually.
Perhaps it¹s like what John Cage said: "I eat a macrobiotic diet in order to become healthier and healthier until the day I die." On 3/23/15, 11:06 PM, "Johannes Birringer" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
