[-empyre-] Maria Miranda: Resolution for Digital Futures
Digital New Year's Resolution: Currently the Australian government is considering some stultifying if not downright terrifying changes for Australian Internet users. These changes are referred to as clean-feed internet and will force ISPs to censor the internet for all Australians. What this will mean is - and I quote: 1. Filtering will be mandatory in all homes and schools across the country. 2. The clean feed will censor material that is 'harmful and inapproriate' for children. 3. The filter will require a massive expansion of the ACMA's (The Australian Communications and Media Authority) blacklist of prohibited content. 4. The Government want to use dynamic filters of questionable accuracy that slow the internet down by an average of 30%. This is a short but horrible list of some of the changes proposed So my digital resolution and/or hope for the new year would be that either the Australian government comes to its senses. Unlikely. That the local and global networks can work their magic through political pressure, international outrage and somehow stop this crazy action. http://nocleanfeed.com/http://nocleanfeed.com/ Bio: Maria Miranda (Australia) works in collaboration with Norie Neumark on media projects - we call our collaboration Out-of-sync. We've been working together for over 15 years, and have made work across media from radio plays to CDROM to networked installation. Currently I am completing a PhD in Media Studies at Macquarie University Sydney researching uncertain practices and unsitely aesthetics in media art, including artists' use of the Internet as one site of their work. -- Renate Ferro and Tim Murray Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Cornell University ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
[-empyre-] Adriene Jenik: Resolution for Digital Futures
Adriene Jenik's New Year's Resolutions for Digital Futures *** I resolve not to fear the future. But to face the headwind. To stand fast and, when needed, still. When I am awake I resolve to be fully awake and alive to all possibilities. To remember those who came before me and those who will come after. I resolve to try and imagine 7 generations into the future at least once each day. When I am asleep I resolve to switch off all of my power strips. to remember my dreams and to learn from them. to call upon all the lessons I've learned already. To get up from the computer and dance. I resolve to use the laptop and the street and the classroom to uphold the rights and dignity of all beings. To recognize both the power and the frailty of networks. I resolve this year to not pass up any opportunity to offer my voice. To not be ashamed by its weakness or shrink away from its rawness. I resolve to remember that listening is an action. To not be afraid. of what is to come. to become a hollow bone. *** Adriene Jenik (US) is a telecommunications media artist and Professor of Computer Media Arts in the http://visarts.ucsd.edu/Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. Her works combine high technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and performance. Renate -- Renate Ferro and Tim Murray Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Cornell University ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
