Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 15:08:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: anthony padgett <[log in to unmask]>
"Hi NEW-MEDIA-CURATING list reader
Sorry, I've also got a belated addition to the "too
interactive" topic.
I look at the relationship between interactive
computer installations and computer manufactured
sculpture.
The interactive breaks down the subject-object
distinction and the new media sculpture reinforces
that distinction.
This contrast is further heightened by using
experiential, abstract work for the interactive (forms
arising from our immediate nature) and the conceptual,
figurative where a subject object relationship is used
(representations of nature).
This contrast can be characterised as one between
non-dualism and dualism, or mystical and moral
perspectives.
Non-dualists subsume experience of duality as
illusiory and dualists state that experience of
duality is real.
The two perspectives are philosophically
irreconcilable but by joining together the art forms
that relate to each perspective a link can be made
that by-passes the philosophical. This project of
linking can be seen on www.theism.co.uk
Thus work can be too interactive on the view that if
you want a balanced expression of the human condition.
Kind Regards
Anthony Padgett"
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