Or a click?
Simon Biggs
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From: Caroline Langill <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:35:42 -0400
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Subject: RE: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Another stab at thinking about the
question of time
Simon, your comment brings to mind T.S. Eliot...what would it sound like to
clear out digital works? Wouldn't we just press the delete button? "Not with
a bang, but a whimper."
Caroline
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> Books have been burned as a form of cultural clear-out. We could have a
> bonfire of new media artworks. I can donate some ephemeral code to get the
> pyre started. We could have a symbolic burn this November 5.
>
> Best
>
> Simon
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>
> Simon Biggs
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> From: "Gere, Charlie" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:57:23 +0100
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> Conversation: Another stab at thinking about the question of time
> Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Another stab at thinking about the question of
> time
>
> Getting away from the phenomenology of the art experience to the
> ontology of the art object, I am interested in the disconnect between
> the ephemerality of much contemporary art and the continued mania for
> preservation that lies at the heart of the museological project and
> indeed in other parts of our culture.
>
> I think this is interesting in relation to the increasingly unmanageable
> amounts of stuff we are confronted with, and the surely futile efforts
> to find ways of preserving it. It is interesting to go to conferences
> where digital conservation/preservation are earnestly debated without
> any discussion about whether it is either possible or even desirable to
> preserve even a tiny percentage of the flood of digital material now
> being produced
>
> I would like to think of time-based art as referring to works that
> acknowledge finitude, entropy etc...
>
>
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