[-empyre-] Linda Dement: Resolution for Digital Futures
Dear Tim and Renate I have some new year's resolutions for digital futures: 1. I will never again upgrade to a new system unless someone else tries it first. 2. I will not buy a new computer unless the old one has stopped working. 3. I will always carefully seal the cracks and joins of the scanner before placing dead birds or bodily fluids on the glass. 4. Between 1am and 4am, I will not delete files I think I won't need again. 5. I will only pay for hosting on servers powered by renewable energy. 6. In the mornings I will make art before checking my email. 7. I will not answer the phone. 8. I will never again let an old computer go to landfill, even though I have to arrange the whole palaver to send it to Minto and they never pick it up when they say they will. 9. I will use open source software wherever possible. 10. I will learn to solder despite my failing eyesight. bio: Linda Dement (Australia) has been working with arts computing since 1989. She has authored screen based interactives, multi-computer installations and collaborated in translocal and performative new media events. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the ICA in London, Ars Electronica, International Symposia of Electronic Art and the Impakt Media Arts Festival in Europe. She is twice winner of the Australian National Digital Art Award and has been awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts. -- 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
Re: [-empyre-] Linda Dement: Resolution for Digital Futures
Hello, It has been some time since I have written here... but recent posts have had me gripped to this thread. I concur pretty much entirely with Linda's resolutions... it's seems many of us are looking more deeply into the value of things we make and do with technologies. The fundamental floor we are facing is the entire reliance on fossil fuels and other scarce resources in the manufacture and maintenance of ICTs in general. For all the abundance the internet affords, the cost is increasingly worrisome. -ag. -- andrew garton http://agarton.org/ http://apc.org.au/ Tel. +43 (0) 680 2139551 (Austria) ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] Linda Dement: Resolution for Digital Futures
I love the sixth resolution, that concentrates, if not the 'transvaluation of every values', at least a healthy inversion (he says, on checking his e-mails just before to make philosophy ...). Actually, digital world requires like every world its own conjurations, protections, delays, disconnections. And everybody knows that, in our connective world, to disconnect is a crime ! kind regards Frederic N. 2009/1/14 Renate Ferro r...@cornell.edu Dear Tim and Renate I have some new year's resolutions for digital futures: 1. I will never again upgrade to a new system unless someone else tries it first. 2. I will not buy a new computer unless the old one has stopped working. 3. I will always carefully seal the cracks and joins of the scanner before placing dead birds or bodily fluids on the glass. 4. Between 1am and 4am, I will not delete files I think I won't need again. 5. I will only pay for hosting on servers powered by renewable energy. 6. In the mornings I will make art before checking my email. 7. I will not answer the phone. 8. I will never again let an old computer go to landfill, even though I have to arrange the whole palaver to send it to Minto and they never pick it up when they say they will. 9. I will use open source software wherever possible. 10. I will learn to solder despite my failing eyesight. bio: Linda Dement (Australia) has been working with arts computing since 1989. She has authored screen based interactives, multi-computer installations and collaborated in translocal and performative new media events. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the ICA in London, Ars Electronica, International Symposia of Electronic Art and the Impakt Media Arts Festival in Europe. She is twice winner of the Australian National Digital Art Award and has been awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts. -- 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 forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
