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Hello CRUMBs, Thanks Axel for your post- amazing! A series of brief notes from the Decode conference at the V&A in London today and tomorrow. Charlie Gere: Mind/body divisions. The architect Pugin, in promoting the Gothic revival, espoused "community not society" in city planning. The Gothic is closer to modernism than classicism, and this relates to new media. Because all gothic architecture is functional. Ruskin - Gothic craftsmen had freedom to design themselves, as opposed to repetitive copying of classical forms and rules. Education: art/vocational splits - relates to Polytechnics, and craft re V&A, and Bauhaus etc. Performance brings the body back. Stelarc's Christ-like embodiment?! Marshall McLuhan was a catholic convert. He was a friend of cleric Thomas Merton and artist Ad Reinhardt. Question from me: Isn't this one of th worrying things about technology? The relationship between god-like power and technology- Intel were convinced they were "magicians" in California in the 1990s. Isn't this an exclusively Male view of embodiment? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132 Email: [log in to unmask] CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132 Email: [log in to unmask] CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org