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>However clever the internet it merely duplicates existing media and
>technologies where its greatest asset is global speed.
Don't think this is right Rupert, but i understand why you say it. it's also
the way different functions can be combined as well, that is they occur in
the same space. so one (almost) simultaneously becomes poet, publisher and
distributor. and the way that different art forms can be combined (and i
know that was done before but in a fairly straightforward editing programme
like premiere i can combine and manipulate film, text, music, still photos
etc.) and the history of collage in modernist and postmodern art tells us
that's an important thing to do.
doesn't mean great art of course, can still be shite, as i've demonstrated
to myself at length in recent years.
and the immesaurable virtual space of the internet/digital technologies mean
everyhting is 'bigger' and longer. so the shite can last a long time; but
you can turn it off. probably.
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