Hi David i think you pointed an important problem. Right in this moment when media art seems to have lost the first enthusiastic drive, it's important to go back to meaningful works of the "past". I did myself show this work "Rehearsal of Memory" by Mongrel 3 years ago in Torino,Italy. We had to use classic. But it did work and it did look just as interesting as it did in mid nineties. I think that a re-thinking and re-analizing of the first wave of complex, ambitious and slightly too heavily structured works of that time would help to get out of a moment of stand by, too much concentrated, i think, on the web. Ciao Lorenzo Taiuti
# distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]