On Mon, 12 May 1997, John Cayley wrote:
> Ask yourself: Is *this* text or image? How do you read it? Do you read it
> differently because of the screen? What happens to our 'texts' when we
> transpose them to the screen,
The most obvious thing at THIS lo-tech level is, you lose another element
of "control" over them, because you have no idea how they physically look
on another's system (even before we bring good screen / bad screen into
it). At the same time, you take another step towards empowering the
various recipients to get involved in them with knife, fork and keyboard
(look how we tidy each other's messages up as we reply...). As for text vs
image, surely at this level it seems more textual, simply because the
image bit of it is so poorly controlled. This may change in time, and I
realise there are other modes far more "film-like" in their control over
delivery etc - but for the present I don't see the Ian Hamilton Finlays of
this world participating...
RC
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