Thanks so much Renate and Tim for the invitation to submit a Digital Resolution- I watched Pollyanna the other night and it changed my life.. instead of being Resolute I am delighted to be playing the "Glad Game"...
9 Reasons to be Cheerful.. I'm glad we have the internet- it gives Governments somewhere new to try to enforce censorship regulations. I'm glad hardly any institutions really bothered to collect internet art- it will make it so much more valuable in 15 years time. I'm glad internet software updates rapidly and is often not backwards compatible - it provides senior artists with an income in recoding their unusable early works. I'm glad my newton/palm/xda/iphone/blackberry fell into the sea water and fizzled and died on Valentine's day - so I could get a newer/better/faster/bigger/slicker model. I'm glad I can follow the intricacies of the lives of my 600 closest friends on Facebook and every minute career enhancement of my 200 most valued business colleagues on Linkedin. I'm glad I'm scared of Twitter Im glad $50 computers are saving the lives of people who live in poverty around the world - I suppose that means they eat them? I'm glad Mitchell Whitelaw showed me the Internet cause I would have had an enormous amount of spare time in the past 15 years otherwise. I'm glad of my terminal connections - my receptors have adapted and I get withdrawal symptoms without them. Love muchly and often. Xx Melinda +++++++++++++++ Melinda Rackham (Australia) is an artist, writer and curator in the fields of networked art, 3d multi-user environments and emerging technologies. Her projects span the theoretical, aesthetic and social aspects of identity, locality, trans species relations and augmentation. Dr Rackham is currently the Director of ANAT - an innovative cultural organisation generating new creativities at the intersections of art, science & technology. -- 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
