May Topic: Technophobia, writers and writingHello all,
I would like to answer two questions formulated here:
1- Can we develop 'real' relationships online?
Yes, my experience says that it is possible and sometimes we have much more
knowledge of what is going on with a webfriend than we have with a person
near us.
2- Is technophobia an issue for you in relation to writing or other areas of
your digital life?
Well, at first be writing, be in other areas of digital life I believe that
technophobia is a problem that does not happen with young people if they
have access to computers and other machines. Have you ever seen a teenager
using a remote control to watch a movie?
This kind of problem occurs with elderly people, people that was born when
computers and other kind of machines did not exhist. However I know elderly
people that uses computers very well and not only for writing or emails or
Internet. On the other hand, here in my country, there are many people that
have difficulty to use the bank's machines and sometimes not so elderly but
people with a small degree of instruction. It is important to remind that
in our current world there are lots of people that have not access to
computers and to Internet much more less. Nowadays we can find lots of
people two times illiterate: not capable of reading books and not capable of
understand the digital codes.
3- Also I would like to invite you to browser at:
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_saij.htm (English)
or
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/portugues_saij.htm
(Português / Espanhol)
There you will find an experience of colletive digital writing that I
consider very interesting.
Below some extracts for you read and judge if it is worthwhile to visit the
experience "Electric Green Sheep".
Do you believe in the human species' CREATION POWER to change our
"political landscape"?
"If you mean can we change the political landscape through the power of
creativity, I think the answer is both yes and no. I don't think an artwork
can change the political landscape, or at least it's very rare for such a
thing to happen. However, I think digital technology, particularly the Web,
is changing the whole shape of society, and creativity is a part of this."
(Edward Picot - UK)
"It depends on the historical circumstances. In general art is innocuous in
relation to social changes and revolutions. Nevertheless, when the
democratic communication channels are obstructed (as in the dictatorships or
under a State of terrorism) Art can replace that deficiency. Art necessarily
expresses the social conflict (it cannot be avoid, it is impossible... )
and only can change the society if it gets to transmit the necessity of
changes. That is to say, it is not Art that changes Society but people,
people that assume the conscience of necessity of changes."
(Clemente Padín - Uruguay)
much more on line...
or:
It seems to me very charming although dramatic this Isabel Saij's almost
animated series of 3D images for which the Artist wrote the poetic
declaration above. The use of colors is excellent and it punctuates the
drama that is developed through the pictures. The way Saij uses different
points of view increases the observer's interest who becomes more and more
interested in discover what is going to happen in the next scene... The
electric green sheep are teeny robots, a probable allusion to all that Saij
has already revealed us in "Political Transparence". For me this is a
fantastic series, I do not tire of observing it and everytime I discover new
details and minutiaes which I really consider surprising. Congratulations
Isabel!
(The download is very fast!)
or
"The starting point (first frame) of this animation is a drawing on a small
plank of wood, measuring approximately 6x5 cm. After to scanthis small plank
I created new drawings using the computer, each time I worked on the
preceding drawing to develop a new phase. Result: 110 drawings. As they
follow one another I could make an assembly of them, therefore an animation.
I called it "digital sublimation" because I was thinking of the chemical
transformation. It's when a material goes directly from the solid form to
the gaseous one.
Normally the 3 stages are: solid, liquid, gaseous."
(Isabel Saij)
or
"One of the most disastrous illusions will not be that which consists in
looking at the artistic expression as a specialists' activity, separated
from the alive problems' reality? On the other hand, it seems to us, that
any creation, whichever the level in which it situates and whichever are the
ideologies that justify it, it is in immediate relation with this
collective freedom, perpetually sprouting, which animates human reality,
shakes the numbest or the most stratified structures and projects the human
groups in the mutation, in the future, in the history."
(DUVIGNAUD, Jean. Sociologia da Arte. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Forense,
1970.)
or
For a while, let's breathe the hilarious gas at the "Bagdah Cafe". Let's
become volatile in spite of the hardness of reality. Perhaps being volatile
we can decipher our own labyrinth and to get a creative exit to our lives.
Let's start to change the world by ourselves..., let's become colourful
sheep like Paulo Villela's happy flock ... (http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/
Paulo Villela)
or
in this point I agree with Saij: we are all sheep
but neither all of us are white (or green)
the sheep artist must be the black sheep:
to see when nobody sees.
to shout when nobody shouts
(Joesér Alvarez)
(Português / Espanhol)
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If you like the project below, also visit http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep,
which is related with "Electric Green Sheep". If you visit Sheep's Parade,
do not forget of clicking the tiltle of the page. You will be received with
music. :-)
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Apologies for my not so good English.
All the best,
Regina Célia Pinto
http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm
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