>But photography changed art and it will never be the same again. This is not
>about materiality but how we understand ourselves and the world through our
>representations. Signification is, on one level, an abstraction - but it is
>always strangely bound to the material. That material is important, whether
>it is words, a drawing, a photograph or a piece of software.
yes absolutely! I was not intimating that the various materialized pathways of expression don't have the affect of altering our selves, sure, I'm merely remarking on the sticky adherence of the techno-social system on that method of defining its interactions (and consequently ours, as participants in that system) with the world. for the self, any creative/expressive practice is about adapting to the chosen (and thus limited) pathway of expression and figuring out if that particular pathway is amenable to the idiosyncratic needs for self expression...
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