Re: [-empyre-] march discussion - the prototype perspective

2010-03-09 Thread Gerry Coulter
Gabriel, please remove me from this list thanks, Gerry From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Gabriel Menotti [gabriel.meno...@gmail.com] Sent: March 8, 2010 1:59 AM To: soft_skinned_space

Re: [-empyre-] animetic machines

2010-02-06 Thread Gerry Coulter
I wonder. Is the readiness to blame cinematic studies not another way of ingorning how animation (like cinema, and probably all media), is a shadow of its former self? Oh certainly, animation cicra 1960 was pretty bad, but how much better it was than the drivel which aheres to the sticky

Re: [-empyre-] animetic machines

2010-02-06 Thread Gerry Coulter
Tim, et. al. While Tim's post inspired my thought it was a reflection on the list to date. So far i see a good deal of celebration by sincere academics who command an interesting and thoughtful discourse but it all seems rather complicitous. Is this area more like art criticism than i had

Re: [-empyre-] animetic machines

2010-02-06 Thread Gerry Coulter
Re Of Tgoodeve's post, A connection between cinema and animation in the digital to which many can relate is the experience of the encroaching death of both. Somehow though, a few good films continue to be made and a few good animations as well. Things that are disappearing are all the more

Re: [-empyre-] animetic machines

2010-02-06 Thread Gerry Coulter
. in what way does speaking of 'degraded images' introduce radical critical distance? From what, for what, and for whom? Cheers, Tom On 2/6/10 2:47 PM, Gerry Coulter gcoul...@ubishops.ca wrote: Tim, et. al. While Tim's post inspired my thought it was a reflection on the list to date. So far

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 26

2010-01-26 Thread Gerry Coulter
My but you are afraid of alot of things. Probably the best thing we could do with Deitch is to exile him to some hell hole like LA MoCa. gerry From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of John Haber

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
I appreciate your post and would make a link to the chatter we endured about the US Supreme court's latest decision... It doesnt matter which rich people choose which pack of lawyers to run government as it does not matter (Bush the Son is a good example) who leads a country. Look at the pack

Re: [-empyre-] saatchi

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
All collecting habits are destructive just as all interpretive activities surrounding art bring a kind of violence to bear on the work. Unlike most major players in the big moneyed art world I think Saatchi actually gives a shit about the art. Is art in the UK today not somewhat in his debt?

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
Huffington is to the political world... nick From: Gerry Coulter gcoul...@ubishops.ca To: soft_skinned_space emp...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 6:00:50 PM Subject: Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics I'm not certain (and nothing has convinced me

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
who can be onsidered an eithical collector and supporter of the arts try Eli Broad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Broad On 1/24/10 6:00 PM, Gerry Coulter gcoul...@ubishops.caUrlBlockedError.aspx wrote: I'm not certain (and nothing has convinced me of late) that ethics and art have anything

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 22

2010-01-24 Thread Gerry Coulter
I guess the art stuff was too hard? We got bored?? What is all this today -- the art of talking about anything but art? This is becoming a huge bore -- it was better when we all just did other things (as per most of past week) Life in America stinks -- its not news. best gerry

Re: [-empyre-] Lascaux to Asylum Art

2010-01-22 Thread Gerry Coulter
to unrecognized Asylum Art? nick From: Gerry Coulter gcoul...@ubishops.ca To: soft_skinned_space emp...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 5:14:06 PM Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13 Art is not responsible to anyone

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-22 Thread Gerry Coulter
Not to worry Christiane -- Americans will continue to get the politicians they deserve (as do we all) best gerry From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Christiane Robbins [...@mindspring.com] Sent:

Re: [-empyre-] self and others

2010-01-14 Thread Gerry Coulter
The support system for art can operate as either a positive or negative influence. In the West today it includes an art market that doesnt care much about art as anything other than an investment. best g From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13

2010-01-14 Thread Gerry Coulter
something like presence via representation. Respectfully, Davin On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Gerry Coulter gcoul...@ubishops.ca wrote: Art is not responsible to anyone or anything. Neither should academics feel the need to speak for others. It is nice when are makes the world more enigmatic

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13

2010-01-12 Thread Gerry Coulter
When we attempt to task art -- as artists -- it ceases to be art and declines into politics. Art makes itself manifest through us -- we are its vehicles, it is not ours. best g From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13

2010-01-12 Thread Gerry Coulter
The term critical culture is a telling one. The system has few better friends than critical culture. g From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Saul Ostrow [sost...@cia.edu] Sent: January 12, 2010 9:47

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13

2010-01-12 Thread Gerry Coulter
Art is not responsible to anyone or anything. Neither should academics feel the need to speak for others. It is nice when are makes the world more enigmatic -- artists who disentangle themselkves from theory do the world a favour. Art is amoral, irresponsible, it ceases to be art when we make

Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

2010-01-11 Thread Gerry Coulter
From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Gerry Coulter [gcoul...@ubishops.ca] Sent: 10 January 2010 21:48 To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity Johanna, We

Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

2010-01-09 Thread Gerry Coulter
ecologically requires admission of complicity. The motto of the EmerAgency is problems B us. thanks for this conversation. Greg Ulmer Johanna On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Gerry Coulter wrote: Given the current state of the globalizing system of promotion -- no, I dont think complicit can

Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

2010-01-09 Thread Gerry Coulter
: to think ecologically requires admission of complicity. The motto of the EmerAgency is problems B us. thanks for this conversation. Greg Ulmer Johanna On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Gerry Coulter wrote: Given the current state of the globalizing system of promotion -- no, I dont think complicit

Re: [-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

2010-01-08 Thread Gerry Coulter
Given the current state of the globalizing system of promotion -- no, I dont think complicit can be thought of without carrying a perjorative connotation. It is precisley the perjorative connations enveloping complicity that have made this discussion so interesting so far ... especially

[-empyre-] Virtual rights in a digital era

2009-12-08 Thread Gerry Coulter
Concerning the Zimmerman and Gregory posting: The question was posed: How do we create an online visual culture of fairness and justice, that balances the right to privacy (and the integrity of the person) with freedom of expression? An answer is that the development of online culture was

Re: [-empyre-] Viral Witnessing Part 6

2009-12-07 Thread Gerry Coulter
For Lynn H. who wrote: ...should I continue to feel discouraged ... that many games are conceived and funded by the military, like DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge that occurred just yesterday? I wouldn't recommend feeling too bad about the fact that most of research into the more interesting