There is a general imprecision to it. Presumably that will even out.
There's a lot of "gosh"around and people get supported just because
they've got a computer. I exaggerate, of course. They have to switch it on
Look, if I tell my computer to do x and push the button, it does
and while I am thinking Well, it would, someone else is saying We ought to
support this
a corner of it that I have been in, e-poetry, has attracted those who seem
to think that word processing a poem makes it e-poetry. Or scanning
something unexpected and using the odd image as an illustration. Or
sending the poem over e-mail: I have seen that done. It's a little awkward
for me as I have been on the record as saying e-poetry is whatever we say
it is
but I had meant, and it didnt occur to me to say As long as we say it in
good faith and with some knowledge
in that field, e-poetry, there seems to be developing a heavy bias towards
the programmed work which is, I think, the critics leading the practice;
and that's not good. If what you do is time-based, spatial, improvised,
which is where I am presently, it's harder to write about. Ten years ago,
I spoke in conference as one who was programming, or actually had
programmed, to produce semantic texts which could be printed, though I
tended then to perform them mixed and intermedia... When I didnt follow up
on the programming, I felt that I wasnt seen as being on the ball
It may be paranoia
It may be that I wasnt being very good; but I am not sure that's so -
there's something about the image of Man / Woman coding the future... and
live coding seems to have an edge of heroically looking into the future
It's ok. It depends what you is done with it. At present, without looking
up the url (for which, thanks), there's a bit too much NEW! in dayglo on
the packet, as if newness matters a sparrow's fart
There's something about the formica (showing my age) edge cleanliness of
the "pure" digital. Cobbing called his visuals "dirty poetry", which I
think he stole from Oyvind Fahlstrom - sorry non-Nordic keyboard so I
approximate, and I think I am in that camp, like it or not
I have seen some technically stunning pieces in new media arts; but too
much of it seems dry ice on reflection; and too many seem worried by live
presence in performance
L
>
> For me it is what gets excluded by this title that I find suspect and
> worrying. My media arts grad year was done on a Mac SE with RSG and hand
> drawn black ink illustrations and other xerography. Hence my suspicions as
> to this usage of the term media arts.
>
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"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
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‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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