Lewis LaCook
Since 2001
Works in Lorain, Ohio United States of America

ARTBASE (6)
PORTFOLIO (7)
BIO
Lewis LaCook makes things. He is a programmer/poet. He likes unstable objects. He doesn't eat enough. Send him all your money.
Discussions (792) Opportunities (1) Events (0) Jobs (0)
DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Polka dots?


absolutely! while the new membership policy is tres
kewl, i think the biggest problem with networked art
right now is that it runs the risk of becoming a giant
artist's statement---with no art to back it up(this is
NOT to say that the art isn't being produced, or isn't
there)---

this is in some ways an unfortunate consequence of
net.art's reliance on conceptualism---yeah, my head
needs fed, too, but the problem is, if we're to
attempt to reach wider audiences, we need to become a
bit more sensualist...why are some game companies
thriving, while net.art, its beautiful but often
frigid cousin, cowers in the corner?

bliss
l

--- judsoN <office@plasmastudii.org> wrote:
> sure!!
>
> http://plasmastudii.org/dryzone/dryzone.php
>
> we should be batting ideas for entirely new
> approaches. thinking of
> what would entice the un-initiated.
>
>
> to appeal to 1% is totally cool. but rhizome
> probably needs to
> target at least 5% just to pay for the servers. the
> key for now is
> just rustling up a demand, and later everyone can
> try tailoring the
> packaging to a specific audience. artist seem
> anxious to jump to the
> packaging part. the audience will be a subset of
> people who will
> pay, a spoonful from the soup of potential
> funders/customers.
> there's no use in defining an audience before we
> have even begun to
> look for that soup.
>
> arts funding has been fading for years. corners are
> cut till there's
> hardly anything left. seems funny. the world is
> saying there's no
> demand for this stuff, and we keep belligerently
> packaging it the
> same way? artspeak is pretty much like shooting
> ourselves in the
> foot. it's a package that works against us. if we
> keep making it
> sound like we think we are all important and
> serious-minded 100% of
> the time, folks decide we're boring. the end
> result, whether they're
> right or not, is that they aren't going to give us
> their money.
>
> let's come up with a new approach (people already
> are, but maybe we
> should be more organized or systematic about it).
> organic yoghurt is
> presented as "you will feel healthier if you have
> this", a jaguar is
> presented as "you will be seen as rich and stylish
> if you have this".
> snapple is presented "this will not make you the
> elitest, but our
> product is part of a fancier world than sodas". so
> what could web
> art offer?
>
> like i said, i think the new rhizome policy is a
> great thing. keep
> trying things to see what works best. but web art
> in general is
> certainly not an entirely lucrative endeavor now
> (compare the cost of
> ALL aspects of it to revenue from ALL aspects).
> though it appears
> there are greater opportunities, am worried things
> like the rhizome
> commission, etc aren't really pulling new money into
> the system as
> much as stirring what we have around more. in the
> long run, simply a
> force like friction will eventually wear us down (as
> even the cost of
> office space slowly rises, the percentage of budget
> will decrease).
> we need to reach out of the usual circuit. and to
> do that we need to
> re-package this "product".
>
> it is in all of our best interest to brainstorm ways
> to promote
> rhizome to a wider paying audience.
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is
> open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set
> out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at
> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>

***************************************************************************
No More Movements...

Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/|||

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: the sequel


conceptually i love this and its prequel...

lately, been obsessed with accretion/depletion....and browser-based networked art is a beautiful environment for this---

bliss
l

Pall Thayer wrote:

> Here's the wonderfully obvious sequel to eugenio tisselli's
> degenerative
> webpage: regenerative
> http://motorhueso.net/regenerative/regenerative.php
> --
> _______________________________
> Pall Thayer
> artist/teacher
> http://www.this.is/pallit
> http://pallit.lhi.is/panse
>
> Lorna
> http://www.this.is/lorna
> _______________________________

DISCUSSION

New Audio: The Golden Path


Some new audio:

http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/sound/LewisLaCook_theGoldenPath.mp3

Mp3 audio
64kbps, 4.20MB

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Boxer


http://rhizome.org/info/10.php

Jim Andrews wrote:

> Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Boxer> Like it or not, this is a pretty accurate
> description of what the public-at-large experiences.
>
> I didn't really get a sense from the article whether the problems she
> mentioned were her problems or problems of the work. The interactivity
> in
> digital art is often poorly conceived and creates pointless
> interactivity.
> But, by the same token, many people do not have the computer literacy
> to
> interact appropriately with well-programmed, well-designed,
> well-conceived
> interfaces. It wasn't clear to me which was the case, or whether it
> was some
> mixture.
>
> Of course, the challeng

e, both to artists and the audience, of such
> communication also poses the possibility of fresh art. And there is
> lots of
> common ground in understanding how computer interfaces typically work.
> And
> other interfaces. And what they do...
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

migration of xanaxpop


hello all!

////my domain name recently expired, so
lewislacook.com will be down for a while///however,
corporate performance artists have been kind enough to
host select works on their server, so.....

xanaxpop, the blog, has moved to
http://www.corporatepa.com/lewislacook/xanaxpop/
.....

look for new works forthcoming, including an exciting
"networked generative literary object" i have been
working on for some months....

bliss
lewis lacook

***************************************************************************
No More Movements...

Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://www.lewislacook.com/|||

Web Programmer|||http://www.corporatepa.com/|||

XanaxPop:Mobile Poem Blog-> http://www.lewislacook.com/xanaxpop/

Collective Writing Projects--> Appendix M ->http://www.lewislacook.com/AppendixM/

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com