Jim Andrews
Since the beginning
Works in Victoria Canada

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BIO
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
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Re: Re: geo letter


> memory is meaning

memory is data. data is not meaning. meaning is constructed from data.

ja
http://vispo.com

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Re: 33 Questions per Minute by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer


The software, which Rafael Lozano-Hemmer developed himself..."

Did Conroy Badger have anything to do with it?

ja?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: NYT art critic reviews Pixar exhibition at MoMA


> if you speak of art, Jim, it really can't be helped.

as silent as a mirror is believed, realities plunge in silence by.

i think it can't be helped only in interzones 5, 37b, and 45.

and of course it would be particularly tough in ny.

ja
http://vispo.com

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Re: Re: Re: Re: NYT art critic reviews Pixar exhibition at MoMA


this thread has been very interesting. one thing that strikes me as odd
about it is that the thread, like so many others, is phrased in terms of the
NYT, Pixar, and MoMA, large corporate or institutional bodies. as though it
is hard to get peoples' attention if the conversation does not contain
discussion of these sorts of large bodies, as though they truly do determine
what is of value and what isn't in matters of art.

ja
http://vispo.com

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"Forty Years of Fluxus" by Ken Friedman


Here's an interesting essay called "Forty Years of Fluxus" by Ken Friedman:
http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/kfriedman-fourtyyears.html

What I found interesting about it was not so much its history of Fluxus as
its discussion concerning electric and electronic art and what Friedman
finds of value therein and what he doesn't. Mostly why he does or doesn't.

I admire his determination to simplicity. Simplicity not as
over-simplification but as arising from philosophically informed as opposed
to technologically-driven art.

However, I'm not sure how much room a thorough-going pursuit of that erm
aesthetic leaves for, say, software art, in which the application may be
philosophically informed and strongly conceptual but forbiddingly complex
beneath the hood.

Also, I enjoyed his examples of work that failed, and why it failed.

ja
http://vispo.com