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Lewis LaCook makes things. He is a programmer/poet. He likes unstable objects. He doesn't eat enough. Send him all your money.
confusion
...one must abandon the assumption that the image contains and
shows fidelity to its referent. This in turn means that one can no longer use the code of causality
as a means of image continuity. Preferably, one should use liquid associational structures that
invite various interpretations. To be sure, all imaging systems are mediated by the viewer: The
question is, to what degree? Few systems invite interpretation, and hence meaning is imposed
more often than it is created. Many producers, for fear of allowing interpretation to drift out of
control, have shunned the use of associational structures for politicized electronic imaging.
Further, associational films tend toward the abstract, and therefore become confusing, making
them ineffective among the disinterested. These problems prompt the eternal return to more
authoritarian models. The answer to such commentary is that the viewer deserves the right to
disinterest, and the freedom to drift. Confusion should be seen as an acceptable aesthetic. The
moment of confusion is the precondition for the scepticism necessary for radical thought to
emerge. The goals then of resistant nonfiction video are twofold: Either to call attention to and
document the sign construction of simulation, or to establish confusion and scepticism so that
simulations cannot function...
---The Critical Art Ensemble
This is why.
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shows fidelity to its referent. This in turn means that one can no longer use the code of causality
as a means of image continuity. Preferably, one should use liquid associational structures that
invite various interpretations. To be sure, all imaging systems are mediated by the viewer: The
question is, to what degree? Few systems invite interpretation, and hence meaning is imposed
more often than it is created. Many producers, for fear of allowing interpretation to drift out of
control, have shunned the use of associational structures for politicized electronic imaging.
Further, associational films tend toward the abstract, and therefore become confusing, making
them ineffective among the disinterested. These problems prompt the eternal return to more
authoritarian models. The answer to such commentary is that the viewer deserves the right to
disinterest, and the freedom to drift. Confusion should be seen as an acceptable aesthetic. The
moment of confusion is the precondition for the scepticism necessary for radical thought to
emerge. The goals then of resistant nonfiction video are twofold: Either to call attention to and
document the sign construction of simulation, or to establish confusion and scepticism so that
simulations cannot function...
---The Critical Art Ensemble
This is why.
http://www.lewislacook.com/
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/385/lewis_lacook.html
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Re: 'Six Rules Towards A New Internet Art'- Reconsidered
>
{I am not necessarily looking at it as a template, but as a text that deserv= es to be taken seriously and considered as a valid net art contribution;}
===i'm in agreement here===eryk's work deserves serious discussion...
{Flash is an advertisement tool developed to deliver
> advertisements and promotional materials over the web.}
``````````BUT WHAT IS THE WEB THESE DAYS''''''''''''''''
the keyword here is tool=====is the video camera an advertisement tool? is html an advertisement tool? all of these things are used to create advertisements....
this is what i don't understand about eryk's argument====if we can look at flash as an "advertisement tool," then we can also look at ascii as an "interoffice meorandum tool"....the point is what happens when these tools get into our hands====
i'm torn when it comes to net art right now====i come from literature, and in ways see every work i do as a piece of writing (and yes, as eryk pointed out in his excellent interview with chris fahey, we are "hard-wired" to the word)===but i've come to despise 'hypertext', see it as very primitive, i admire software art yet want more out of the media===
{I am not necessarily looking at it as a template, but as a text that deserv= es to be taken seriously and considered as a valid net art contribution;}
===i'm in agreement here===eryk's work deserves serious discussion...
{Flash is an advertisement tool developed to deliver
> advertisements and promotional materials over the web.}
``````````BUT WHAT IS THE WEB THESE DAYS''''''''''''''''
the keyword here is tool=====is the video camera an advertisement tool? is html an advertisement tool? all of these things are used to create advertisements....
this is what i don't understand about eryk's argument====if we can look at flash as an "advertisement tool," then we can also look at ascii as an "interoffice meorandum tool"....the point is what happens when these tools get into our hands====
i'm torn when it comes to net art right now====i come from literature, and in ways see every work i do as a piece of writing (and yes, as eryk pointed out in his excellent interview with chris fahey, we are "hard-wired" to the word)===but i've come to despise 'hypertext', see it as very primitive, i admire software art yet want more out of the media===
the foundation of iconography: viewing info
turns out that in order to view the Iconography 3D environment, you will need to download the atmosphere browser (free), available at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/betaupdate.html
the URL for the file: http://www.lewislacook.com/VRML/Iconography.aer
~let me know how this works...particularly if the music loads...
bliss
l
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http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/385/lewis_lacook.html
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http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/betaupdate.html
the URL for the file: http://www.lewislacook.com/VRML/Iconography.aer
~let me know how this works...particularly if the music loads...
bliss
l
http://www.lewislacook.com/
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/385/lewis_lacook.html
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Re: 'Six Rules Towards A New Internet Art'- Reconsidered
> eryk distrusts the image---fine...BUT he doesn't seem to mind ascii art, which, being based on a language removed from language (which is removed even further from things-in-themselves, which we can't seem to experience without mediation) is also as you point out subject to skepticism...
also, in this "hearts" thing, there's the line: "...sell to the highest bidder..." ++++++how does this sort of attitude advance net art socially or artistically...(unless eryk is being sarcastic)
my biggest beef with net art is that it remains firmly in the domain of the figurative====even jess' work (which i do love) is thus, nowhere approaching the avant-gardes of other artforms (we've had non-figuritive work in the plastic arts for a while now, and with the language school and the new york school we approached a non-figiuritive verbal art)~~~THIS IS WHY SO MUCH NET ART BORES ME`````not only does it NOT investigate the relationship between image and text and interactivity (and eryk's work often simply investigates the relationship between image and reduction to text, as opposed to actually going into the image~~~~& i do like some of his work, too), but it often ends up being an art that could just as easily be presented on a televiion screen....which is not what it's about for me....if you're going to work on a computer, explore the computer (CODE!!!)...
if net art is to actually ever achieve what it often promises, it's going to have to combine all the avant-gardes in a new way```````which i do not see often at all++++++++figuritive text, figuritive imagery, no REAL exploration of anything, really....just making pretty pictures that move, with sound, which cinema has already covered....and no, hypertext is not an answer, it's still linear and still authorial, the user choosing a path through the work does not constitute interactivity or communion with the user....
++++++of course, i could just be cranky today......
bliss
l
also, in this "hearts" thing, there's the line: "...sell to the highest bidder..." ++++++how does this sort of attitude advance net art socially or artistically...(unless eryk is being sarcastic)
my biggest beef with net art is that it remains firmly in the domain of the figurative====even jess' work (which i do love) is thus, nowhere approaching the avant-gardes of other artforms (we've had non-figuritive work in the plastic arts for a while now, and with the language school and the new york school we approached a non-figiuritive verbal art)~~~THIS IS WHY SO MUCH NET ART BORES ME`````not only does it NOT investigate the relationship between image and text and interactivity (and eryk's work often simply investigates the relationship between image and reduction to text, as opposed to actually going into the image~~~~& i do like some of his work, too), but it often ends up being an art that could just as easily be presented on a televiion screen....which is not what it's about for me....if you're going to work on a computer, explore the computer (CODE!!!)...
if net art is to actually ever achieve what it often promises, it's going to have to combine all the avant-gardes in a new way```````which i do not see often at all++++++++figuritive text, figuritive imagery, no REAL exploration of anything, really....just making pretty pictures that move, with sound, which cinema has already covered....and no, hypertext is not an answer, it's still linear and still authorial, the user choosing a path through the work does not constitute interactivity or communion with the user....
++++++of course, i could just be cranky today......
bliss
l
testing the Iconography foundation
http://www.lewislacook.com/VRML/Iconography.aer
~this is a world still in progress~choose "run file from current location" when
download dialogue box appears~
created with adobe atmosphere~i'm testing this to see if the user can view this properly over the web~please let me know if it ran on your machine~
bliss
l
http://www.lewislacook.com/
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/385/lewis_lacook.html
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~this is a world still in progress~choose "run file from current location" when
download dialogue box appears~
created with adobe atmosphere~i'm testing this to see if the user can view this properly over the web~please let me know if it ran on your machine~
bliss
l
http://www.lewislacook.com/
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/385/lewis_lacook.html
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