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

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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.
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jejune


that geegaw is really jejune

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Re: Re: yi zhou


> the code is sloppy. the concept is weak.

yeah...
actually, i'm not sure i'd call much of that code....
bliss
l

>
>
> On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 12:47 AM, Lewis LaCook wrote:
>
> > http://www.yi-yo.net/html/html2/virtualgallery.html
> >
> > y'know, it's very pretty, but....
> >
> > any other comments?
> >
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Re: [thingist] Rub Linda the right way and she might show you wonderland


--- Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lewis LaCook" <llacook@yahoo.com>
> > -----i don't see this piece as pissing on
> > anyone///it's simply exploring the (much-explored)
> > connection between the erotic and the
> violent///it's
> > no more a case of exploitation than your own
> > "memorial" for those who died in the sept. 11
> > tragedy----
>
>
> Please point out where sex and violence were linked,
> or where exploitation
> of the dead entered into my September 11th, 2001
> piece? The piece was
> designed because I was failing to see the humanity
> of the event because of
> desensitization, but it was different from Josephs
> in that it was made to
> re-align the images I saw with the horror of what
> happened in a way that
> reflected the reality of what occurred. Which left
> it open to ambiguous
> readings; some saw the sheer number of names and
> felt overwhelmed, some saw
> saw politics in it, some saw a media critique in it-
> but it was just what I
> saw, and what happened, and an attempt to bridge
> that gap. There were no
> sexually suggestive titles, disco music, or
> violations of the Geneva
> Convention present in my work, as there was in
> Josephs. [The GC renounces
> "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular,
> humiliating and degrading
> treatment"] What my piece had that Josephs lacked
> was a sense of decorum and
> respect, as opposed to the desire to "shock myself
> back into feeling" at the
> any expense.
>

my point wasn't that YOU had explored that much-tamped
path, but to (perhaps too literally) point out that
ANY art that's ABOUT or purports to be ABOUT (as
opposed to just IS) exploits its subject matter,
regardless of intent...this is the horror of language
itself...in that sentence, i am in a sense exploiting
"language"...i can't get at the 'ding an sich' (not
sure if that's correct), only at the aura of
conventional meaning around it---so, in making a piece
refencing sept 11, you too exploited it, because
reference is to me a kind of exploitation...

REPRESENTATION IS EXPLOITATION...

and reverence and exploitation can conjoin in an
artwork...because when you make art ABOUT something,
you exploit it, you use that event to make an aura
around the material of your work...you use it to
affect...said affect and effect could be reverence, or
shock....

now, i'm not picking on you (especially as you have
seen the personal tyranny in all of us...something I
struggle with personally day-to-day, and in even
asserting my beliefs here (hell, in even HAVING
beliefs, or thoughts) struggle with)----
>
> and while i'll admit you're (ack, typo!!!!)work
> > had very little "shock value"---i don't really
> find
> > anything about joseph's piece "shocking"--it was
> > still, in its own way, exploitive of the deaths of
> > others, if viewed with this paradigm---
>
>
> There is a difference between exploitation and
> reverence. Below is a start,
> but they don't quite get it it entirely:
>
> Exploitation:
>
> 1. The act of employing to the greatest possible
> advantage: exploitation of
> copper deposits.
> 2. Utilization of another person or group for
> selfish purposes: exploitation
> of unwary consumers.
> 3. An advertising or a publicity program.
>
> Reverence:
>
> 1. A feeling of profound awe and respect and often
> love; veneration. See
> Synonyms at honor.
> 2. An act showing respect, especially a bow or
> curtsy.
> 3. The state of being revered.
>
>
> Joseph specifically said in his email to Michael:
>
> "yes, i was getting immune to photos, so i created a
> setting to make them
> shock me."
>
> This is utilization of another person or group for
> selfish purposes.
>
>
>
>
> > ---this is interesting--revealing--i've found that
> > those who feel that anyone can "go astray" needs
> must
> > have a "correct" path in mind, usually one they
> > themselves have defined---and this is an attitude
> no
> > different than those fundamentalist christian
> stations
> > you listen to---or, for that matter, the attitude
> of
> > junior bush---it's the first steps toward fascism,
> and
> > unfortunately it's quite natural---
>
>
> I said no different, and the reason I included that
> portion of the letter is
> to state that I am aware of this. But this is
> evident within everyone, and
> if we are aware of it we can keep it in check.

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bliss
l

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yi zhou


http://www.yi-yo.net/html/html2/virtualgallery.html

y'know, it's very pretty, but....

any other comments?

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Re: Ce que peut un corps / possible bodies


> "Ce que peut un corps / possible bodies" is a web-based project for
> the keyboard and computer. As you play with your keyboard, play with
> the movements of Fred Astaire in the movie " Shall We Dance " (1937),
> with a sampled sequence. Thus, Fred Astaire plays with an industrial
> machine. Forget Astaire's "elegance," and transform him into a
> sequential and repetitive (hysterical) body.
>
> "Ce que peut un corps / possible bodies" was originally an interactive
> installation for the piano and the computer.

i like!!!! i like!!!

the whole idea of astaire being "reduced" (if indeed this is what happens) to a sequential and repetitive body....beautiful!

bliss
l