Resolutions as a techno-artist and educator. Techno-resolutions to quell notions of Techno(determinist)-revolutions. Numbers 1-2.
(1) The next time someone says "the underdeveloped world lacks the infrastructure to" suggest to them that the overdeveloped world has too much infrastructure (particularly in the realm of corporate law and bureaucracy) to accomplish much either. (2) The next time someone says "this is the genomic age when we are curing lots of terminal diseases," point out to them that research in the past 25 years has actually cured the fewest terminal diseases of any 25 year period since the late 1800s. These (and similar) resolutions (while admittedly not super optimistic;-) are hoped to provide a more realistic assessment of the present, for more productive discussions about the future. bio: Paul Vanouse (US) is an artist working in Emerging Media forms. Radical interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his practice. Since the early 1990s his artwork has addressed complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium. He is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, New York. -- 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
