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
