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BIO
Marc Garrett is co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the Internet arts collectives and communities – Furtherfield.org, Furthernoise.org, Netbehaviour.org, also co-founder and co-curator/director of the gallery space formerly known as 'HTTP Gallery' now called the Furtherfield Gallery in London (Finsbury Park), UK. Co-curating various contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally. Co-editor of 'Artists Re:Thinking Games' with Ruth Catlow and Corrado Morgana 2010. Hosted Furtherfield's critically acclaimed weekly broadcast on UK's Resonance FM Radio, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change. Currently doing an Art history Phd at the University of London, Birkbeck College.
Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Emerging in the late 80′s from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular ‘Savage Yet Tender’ alternative broadcasting 1980′s group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS with Irational.org.
Our mission is to co-create extraordinary art that connects with contemporary audiences providing innovative, engaging and inclusive digital and physical spaces for appreciating and participating in practices in art, technology and social change. As well as finding alternative ways around already dominating hegemonies, thus claiming for ourselves and our peer networks a culturally aware and critical dialogue beyond traditional hierarchical behaviours. Influenced by situationist theory, fluxus, free and open source culture, and processes of self-education and peer learning, in an art, activist and community context.
Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Emerging in the late 80′s from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular ‘Savage Yet Tender’ alternative broadcasting 1980′s group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS with Irational.org.
Our mission is to co-create extraordinary art that connects with contemporary audiences providing innovative, engaging and inclusive digital and physical spaces for appreciating and participating in practices in art, technology and social change. As well as finding alternative ways around already dominating hegemonies, thus claiming for ourselves and our peer networks a culturally aware and critical dialogue beyond traditional hierarchical behaviours. Influenced by situationist theory, fluxus, free and open source culture, and processes of self-education and peer learning, in an art, activist and community context.
Weapons 'R Us
Weapons 'R Us: "It's time to share the nightmares"
A follow-up to yesterday's email on nuclear proliferation: In Asia Times
on-line today, Mark Erikson quotes from the charming thoughts of Washington
Post syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, who recently wrote: "We [the
US] should go to the Chinese and tell them plainly that if they do not join
us in squeezing North Korea ... we will endorse any Japanese attempt to
create a nuclear deterrent of its own. Even better, we would sympathetically
regard any request by Japan to acquire American nuclear missiles as an
immediate and interim deterrent. If our nightmare is a nuclear North Korea,
China's is a nuclear Japan. It's time to share the nightmares."
Erikson makes it clear that Japan could, in fact, go nuclear in a major way
in a matter of months, if the decision were made -- and that thoughts of
this are now becoming part of acceptable mainstream discussion in Japan, not
simply of semi-buried right-wing rants.
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid(7
A follow-up to yesterday's email on nuclear proliferation: In Asia Times
on-line today, Mark Erikson quotes from the charming thoughts of Washington
Post syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, who recently wrote: "We [the
US] should go to the Chinese and tell them plainly that if they do not join
us in squeezing North Korea ... we will endorse any Japanese attempt to
create a nuclear deterrent of its own. Even better, we would sympathetically
regard any request by Japan to acquire American nuclear missiles as an
immediate and interim deterrent. If our nightmare is a nuclear North Korea,
China's is a nuclear Japan. It's time to share the nightmares."
Erikson makes it clear that Japan could, in fact, go nuclear in a major way
in a matter of months, if the decision were made -- and that thoughts of
this are now becoming part of acceptable mainstream discussion in Japan, not
simply of semi-buried right-wing rants.
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid(7
Re: #1 August Highlandism
oops,
It seems that by sharing one of my a fave sentences out of your text, which
was submitted earlier; I have (non intentionally) offended you, without even
meaning to.
You read my post wrong, there is no assumption, not even malice, please read
it again.
But at least I got to know what you think of me -
oh well - marc
> marc characteristically made an assumption
>
> "I know, you've gone for a pre-emptive name calling sit'..."
>
> marc your assumption is characteristically incorrect
>
> august
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>
> To: <list@rhizome.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:47 AM
> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: #1 August Highlandism
>
>
> > Don't be so down on yourself, let others insult you first before
supplying
> > them the names.
> > I know, you've gone for a pre-emptive name calling sit'...
> >
> > ~a reeking hyena~ my fave.
> >
> > The rest, are just too visually disturbing for me and I am
> > feeling a bit delicate this morning, cause I have been writing
> > and doing to much, far too late again.
> >
> > marc and the mudflaps.
> >
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' douchebag
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred ass-spelunker
> > > > > > August Highland is a scrambled sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally worthless skullfucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable golden shower
> > > > > > August Highland is a dickless twat drip
> > > > > > August Highland is a fucked-up wooly-woofter
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotting astronaut
> > > > > > August Highland is a tampon-munching pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent whore
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-lipped meat flappers
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank pillow biter
> > > > > > August Highland is a dog-loving slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a pregnant sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a dog-loving poo-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained saggy tits
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred anal avenger
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed jizz receptacle
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained sexy retard
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-faced cuntrag
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed sack o' crap
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless fur burger
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing hyena
> > > > > > August Highland is a mega chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a dingleberry-ridden bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a camel-toed poop chute
> > > > > > August Highland is a tea-baggin' jizz queen
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' ass cannibal
> > > > > > August Highland is a pickle-reekin' cuntrag
> > > > > > August Highland is a doggy-style biznitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly butt slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly ghetto booty
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly queef-sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a musty chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a trout sniffin' bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless ghetto booty
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed hermaphrodite
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid poontang
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotten penis monkey
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-faced homo
> > > > > > August Highland is a sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden tube jockey
> > > > > > August Highland is a trout sniffin' spunk junkie
> > > > > > August Highland is a mega poohead
> > > > > > August Highland is a fist-fucked shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a bloody jizz queen
> > > > > > August Highland is a tea-baggin' piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a tampon-munching astronaut
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-smelling chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a diaper-eating chocolate starfish
> > > > > > August Highland is a doggy-style fuckstick
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed fuckface
> > > > > > August Highland is a shitty asslicker
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky splooge receptacle
> > > > > > August Highland is a carpet-munching beef curtains
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed pubic louse
> > > > > > August Highland is a constantly-fellating felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly worm-sperm
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced jizzmopper
> > > > > > August Highland is a trout sniffin' hyena
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained cleveland steamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred chode sniffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a scrambled poohead
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally worthless turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a big, fat nut job
> > > > > > August Highland is a cluster-fucked pubic crabs
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid butthole
> > > > > > August Highland is a syphlitic jizzmopper
> > > > > > August Highland is a sixty-nining butt sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a massive ass cannibal
> > > > > > August Highland is a cluster-fucked rim-jobber
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' koochee mama
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred hershey highway
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' hershey highway
> > > > > > August Highland is a mega salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced hand job
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy bitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed poohead
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a kielbasa-strokin' roadkill
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally worthless felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a skid-marked saggy tits
> > > > > > August Highland is a syphlitic salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe ass panda
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced fag
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a foul shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky jerkoff
> > > > > > August Highland is a monkey-raping slam pig
> > > > > > August Highland is a contagious felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled fuck juice
> > > > > > August Highland is a monkey-raping butt sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a scab-laden roast beef lover
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-brained douchebag
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' nut job
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained prick tease
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed queef-sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping pubic louse
> > > > > > August Highland is a foul butt sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotting homo
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained meat flappers
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable fuckwad
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing jizzmopper
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless astronaut
> > > > > > August Highland is a pearl necklace-wearing sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky skullfucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a lubricated bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a tampon-munching piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a spider-legged fuckpig
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed thunderbox
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a gravy-makin' rectal wart
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexually-transmitted poo-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a retarded chode smoker
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexually-transmitted bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass golden shower
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent cock jockey
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested twat drip
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly fuckwad
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless sodomist
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a skanky shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a tired-ass jizz queen
> > > > > > August Highland is a oily sexy retard
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a scab-laden jizz receptacle
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden scrotum sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a lubricated sausage jockey
> > > > > > August Highland is a dingleberry-ridden , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly chocolate starfish
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless chode doctor
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank bergina
> > > > > > August Highland is a dickless pillow biter
> > > > > > August Highland is a lubricated fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' monkeycum
> > > > > > August Highland is a pregnant douchebag
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid ass-spelunker
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable poo hound
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly roadkill
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly poontang
> > > > > > August Highland is a scrambled ghetto booty
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-scaffled ass panda
> > > > > > August Highland is a gravy-makin' ass bandito
> > > > > > August Highland is a fucked-up butt pirate
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained jungle bunny
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe taconera
> > > > > > August Highland is a tea-baggin' shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a sixty-nining schmegma
> > > > > > August Highland is a herpes-ridden queer
> > > > > > August Highland is a constantly-fellating chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a constantly-fellating , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a gyro-eatin' ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-lipped , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass wooly-woofter
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy ass panda
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled pork sword
> > > > > > August Highland is a fist-fucked anal avenger
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a creamy shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a cotton-pickin' roast beef lover
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced rim-jobber
> > > > > > August Highland is a testicle-shitting diesel dyke
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid skullfucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' nancy boy
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-brained bergina
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' pillow biter
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden bitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless ass-spelunker
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing cornhole
> > > > > > August Highland is a pearl necklace-wearing biatch
> > > > > > August Highland is a dingleberry-ridden piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass bitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a numero uno boil on the ass of humanity
> > > > > > August Highland is a syphlitic scrotum sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent taconera
> > > > > > August Highland is a skanky fuck juice
> > > > > > August Highland is a degenerate fuckface
> > > > > > August Highland is a oily diesel dyke
> > > > > > August Highland is a pickle-reekin' koochee mama
> > > > > > August Highland is a hemorrhoid-encrusted beef curtains
> > > > > > August Highland is a saddle-bagged slam pig
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy cocksmoker
> > > > > > August Highland is a pickle-reekin' dick licker
> > > > > > August Highland is a camel-toed poo hound
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank sexy retard
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' scrotum sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a saddle-bagged cornhole
> > > > > > August Highland is a stretch-marked meat flappers
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable fuckstick
> > > > > > August Highland is a spider-legged roadkill
> > > > > > August Highland is a undesirable pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a reeking slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a diaper-eating wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a cotton-pickin' circus mutt
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-brained chode smoker
> > > > > > August Highland is a grotesque pork sword
> > > > > > August Highland is a reeking hyena
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless butt slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a cotton-pickin' pubic louse
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-faced flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a kielbasa-strokin' biznitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained cum dumpster
> > > > > > August Highland is a big, fat chode sniffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-guzzling fuckpig
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested queer
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled butthole
> > > > > > August Highland is a saddle-bagged asslicker
> > > > > > August Highland is a foul sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a contagious turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a kielbasa-strokin' wet blanket
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid shitbucket
> > > > > > August Highland is a doggy-style pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a pregnant poontang
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotting wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested spunk junkie
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a undesirable turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a dog-loving cuntrag
> > > > > > August Highland is a sixty-nining flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a humongous , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed spunk slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a skanky vagina sandwich
> > > > > > August Highland is a rabid cleveland steamer
> > > > > >
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It seems that by sharing one of my a fave sentences out of your text, which
was submitted earlier; I have (non intentionally) offended you, without even
meaning to.
You read my post wrong, there is no assumption, not even malice, please read
it again.
But at least I got to know what you think of me -
oh well - marc
> marc characteristically made an assumption
>
> "I know, you've gone for a pre-emptive name calling sit'..."
>
> marc your assumption is characteristically incorrect
>
> august
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>
> To: <list@rhizome.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:47 AM
> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: #1 August Highlandism
>
>
> > Don't be so down on yourself, let others insult you first before
supplying
> > them the names.
> > I know, you've gone for a pre-emptive name calling sit'...
> >
> > ~a reeking hyena~ my fave.
> >
> > The rest, are just too visually disturbing for me and I am
> > feeling a bit delicate this morning, cause I have been writing
> > and doing to much, far too late again.
> >
> > marc and the mudflaps.
> >
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' douchebag
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred ass-spelunker
> > > > > > August Highland is a scrambled sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally worthless skullfucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable golden shower
> > > > > > August Highland is a dickless twat drip
> > > > > > August Highland is a fucked-up wooly-woofter
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotting astronaut
> > > > > > August Highland is a tampon-munching pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent whore
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-lipped meat flappers
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank pillow biter
> > > > > > August Highland is a dog-loving slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a pregnant sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a dog-loving poo-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained saggy tits
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred anal avenger
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed jizz receptacle
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained sexy retard
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-faced cuntrag
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed sack o' crap
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless fur burger
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing hyena
> > > > > > August Highland is a mega chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a dingleberry-ridden bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a camel-toed poop chute
> > > > > > August Highland is a tea-baggin' jizz queen
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' ass cannibal
> > > > > > August Highland is a pickle-reekin' cuntrag
> > > > > > August Highland is a doggy-style biznitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly butt slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly ghetto booty
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly queef-sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a musty chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a trout sniffin' bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless ghetto booty
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed hermaphrodite
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid poontang
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotten penis monkey
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-faced homo
> > > > > > August Highland is a sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden tube jockey
> > > > > > August Highland is a trout sniffin' spunk junkie
> > > > > > August Highland is a mega poohead
> > > > > > August Highland is a fist-fucked shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a bloody jizz queen
> > > > > > August Highland is a tea-baggin' piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a tampon-munching astronaut
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-smelling chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a diaper-eating chocolate starfish
> > > > > > August Highland is a doggy-style fuckstick
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed fuckface
> > > > > > August Highland is a shitty asslicker
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky splooge receptacle
> > > > > > August Highland is a carpet-munching beef curtains
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed pubic louse
> > > > > > August Highland is a constantly-fellating felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly worm-sperm
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced jizzmopper
> > > > > > August Highland is a trout sniffin' hyena
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained cleveland steamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred chode sniffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a scrambled poohead
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally worthless turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a big, fat nut job
> > > > > > August Highland is a cluster-fucked pubic crabs
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid butthole
> > > > > > August Highland is a syphlitic jizzmopper
> > > > > > August Highland is a sixty-nining butt sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a massive ass cannibal
> > > > > > August Highland is a cluster-fucked rim-jobber
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' koochee mama
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred hershey highway
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' hershey highway
> > > > > > August Highland is a mega salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced hand job
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy bitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed poohead
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a kielbasa-strokin' roadkill
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally worthless felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a skid-marked saggy tits
> > > > > > August Highland is a syphlitic salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe ass panda
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced fag
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a foul shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky jerkoff
> > > > > > August Highland is a monkey-raping slam pig
> > > > > > August Highland is a contagious felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled fuck juice
> > > > > > August Highland is a monkey-raping butt sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a scab-laden roast beef lover
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-brained douchebag
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' nut job
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained prick tease
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed queef-sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping pubic louse
> > > > > > August Highland is a foul butt sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotting homo
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained meat flappers
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable fuckwad
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing jizzmopper
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless astronaut
> > > > > > August Highland is a pearl necklace-wearing sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a stinky skullfucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a lubricated bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a tampon-munching piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a spider-legged fuckpig
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-bombed thunderbox
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a gravy-makin' rectal wart
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexually-transmitted poo-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a retarded chode smoker
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexually-transmitted bunghole
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass golden shower
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent cock jockey
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested twat drip
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly fuckwad
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless sodomist
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a skanky shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a tired-ass jizz queen
> > > > > > August Highland is a oily sexy retard
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a scab-laden jizz receptacle
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden scrotum sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a lubricated sausage jockey
> > > > > > August Highland is a dingleberry-ridden , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a smelly chocolate starfish
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless chode doctor
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank bergina
> > > > > > August Highland is a dickless pillow biter
> > > > > > August Highland is a lubricated fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' monkeycum
> > > > > > August Highland is a pregnant douchebag
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid ass-spelunker
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable poo hound
> > > > > > August Highland is a pug fugly roadkill
> > > > > > August Highland is a fugly poontang
> > > > > > August Highland is a scrambled ghetto booty
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-scaffled ass panda
> > > > > > August Highland is a gravy-makin' ass bandito
> > > > > > August Highland is a fucked-up butt pirate
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained jungle bunny
> > > > > > August Highland is a wannabe taconera
> > > > > > August Highland is a tea-baggin' shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a sixty-nining schmegma
> > > > > > August Highland is a herpes-ridden queer
> > > > > > August Highland is a constantly-fellating chicken-fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a constantly-fellating , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a gyro-eatin' ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-lipped , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a donkey-raping felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass wooly-woofter
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy ass panda
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled pork sword
> > > > > > August Highland is a fist-fucked anal avenger
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a creamy shit eater
> > > > > > August Highland is a cotton-pickin' roast beef lover
> > > > > > August Highland is a twat-faced rim-jobber
> > > > > > August Highland is a testicle-shitting diesel dyke
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid skullfucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' nancy boy
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-brained bergina
> > > > > > August Highland is a ass jammin' pillow biter
> > > > > > August Highland is a funk-ridden bitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a utterly useless ass-spelunker
> > > > > > August Highland is a anal-probing cornhole
> > > > > > August Highland is a pearl necklace-wearing biatch
> > > > > > August Highland is a dingleberry-ridden piece of shit
> > > > > > August Highland is a old-ass bitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested bum fucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a numero uno boil on the ass of humanity
> > > > > > August Highland is a syphlitic scrotum sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent taconera
> > > > > > August Highland is a skanky fuck juice
> > > > > > August Highland is a degenerate fuckface
> > > > > > August Highland is a oily diesel dyke
> > > > > > August Highland is a pickle-reekin' koochee mama
> > > > > > August Highland is a hemorrhoid-encrusted beef curtains
> > > > > > August Highland is a saddle-bagged slam pig
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy cocksmoker
> > > > > > August Highland is a pickle-reekin' dick licker
> > > > > > August Highland is a camel-toed poo hound
> > > > > > August Highland is a rank sexy retard
> > > > > > August Highland is a pre-pubescent fuck sauce
> > > > > > August Highland is a sandbaggin' scrotum sucker
> > > > > > August Highland is a saddle-bagged cornhole
> > > > > > August Highland is a stretch-marked meat flappers
> > > > > > August Highland is a totally unfuckable fuckstick
> > > > > > August Highland is a spider-legged roadkill
> > > > > > August Highland is a undesirable pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a reeking slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a diaper-eating wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a cotton-pickin' circus mutt
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-brained chode smoker
> > > > > > August Highland is a grotesque pork sword
> > > > > > August Highland is a reeking hyena
> > > > > > August Highland is a sexless butt slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a inbred ass commando
> > > > > > August Highland is a cotton-pickin' pubic louse
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-faced flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a shit-stained felcher
> > > > > > August Highland is a kielbasa-strokin' biznitch
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-stained cum dumpster
> > > > > > August Highland is a big, fat chode sniffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a cum-guzzling fuckpig
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested queer
> > > > > > August Highland is a pus-filled butthole
> > > > > > August Highland is a saddle-bagged asslicker
> > > > > > August Highland is a foul sperm bank
> > > > > > August Highland is a contagious turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a kielbasa-strokin' wet blanket
> > > > > > August Highland is a rancid shitbucket
> > > > > > August Highland is a doggy-style pussyfart
> > > > > > August Highland is a pregnant poontang
> > > > > > August Highland is a rotting wiener puffer
> > > > > > August Highland is a gonorrhea-infested spunk junkie
> > > > > > August Highland is a greasy salad tosser
> > > > > > August Highland is a undesirable turd burglar
> > > > > > August Highland is a dog-loving cuntrag
> > > > > > August Highland is a sixty-nining flamer
> > > > > > August Highland is a humongous , diseased prostitute
> > > > > > August Highland is a bug-eyed spunk slut
> > > > > > August Highland is a skanky vagina sandwich
> > > > > > August Highland is a rabid cleveland steamer
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Bushwhacked
Bushwhacked
With war looming it is no good the American public looking to its newspapers
for an independent voice. For, says Matthew Engel, the press have now become
the president's men.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4581887,00.html
With war looming it is no good the American public looking to its newspapers
for an independent voice. For, says Matthew Engel, the press have now become
the president's men.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4581887,00.html
Re: Some random thoughts on the state of the art...
Hi Eryk,
>I tend to think that when one moves backwards, one is
>psychologically afraid of something (I could be wrong).
>
e:I'm curious why pages looking like one38.org is a step backwards? :)
m:Yeah ok - you know I didn't mean that you cute ass.
(or you haven't read my nice emails to you)
I rate your site, and I would never consider your
imaginings, collaborative or singular as a step backwards.
>The 'heroic period' is a mythology invented by those who
>were lucky enough to be accepted by institutions at the
>time. A harking back to a certain time, but in reality it
>was elitist. And open only a to few.
e: Hmmm, I have to disagree. I was around for the "heroic period" and found
it extraordinarily open. I was an unknown 17 year old from a suburb and
I was able to fly to Europe, give lectures, attend lectures, hang out
and have dinner with JODI and some people from I/O/D...
Whether this makes me part of the elite- a very real possibility of
right place / right time, I don't know, but I didn't feel like there was
a lot of condescention from anyone in the community at the time.
(Although I've never aggressively persued the title of "heroic period"
artist, since I don't see a bulk of my work having been done in those
years, and I don't really feel it's important to be a part of the "first
wave," even if I was hanging around for it.) There were some critics and
some mailing list admins etc etc etc who didn't have what could be
precisely open arms, but there was certainly no condescention from the
artists themselves. A lot of the work was open -Alexei's desktop expo,
the 7-11 list (+ keiko suzuki), and I am sure there are more.
m: This must be a situational thing, because for me it was very different,
and I am not hard to get on with. Not like some neurotic self 'id' driven
dudes who are not interested in anything else other than their own singular
mission. I sneaked in using a heath bunting copy 'id', which he forged for
me at the 'next 5 minutes' conference in 95, Amsterdam; and my experience
which is a barometer I tend to trust (not always a precise one I am the
first to admit), was that there were a lot of institutions touting for
talent, and if the talent was affiliated to institutions themselves, the
likelihood of exchange for the artist was more likely to be recognised.
Having said this, times are different now, although it has taken a while,
many projects that I embark on are taken seriously; and to be 'extra' honest
they are what I have been trying to do for ages. But now a shift has taken
place and caertain people are able to realize the intentions/ideas behind
certain projects easier.
Another thing that is easily forgotten, is that branding is an important
part of 'singular' net activity. Many types of groups have branded
themsleves as a certain 'item', so that they are easier to see, which is
quite inportant if the content is pretty much obscure or challenging in some
respects. Networks are hard to brand as a philosophy or art practise.
In my early net days, I was literally a net artist, using BBS systems &
exchanging information via the phone line, to groups like 'New World
Disorder' & 'Fast Breeder', using 'linux' setups, from 92. Even using actual
payphones for projects as well, linked up with pirate radio broadcasts. But
because I had personally made the decision that creativity does not have to
come from institutions to be valid. I found that this kind of idea was
not going to get you much attention. Certain people assumed that I was
threat and reacted in a negative way towards me and some of the dudes I
worked with at the time. I was only trying make real what certain other
groups were advocating but in reality were not acting out. But there is no
bitterness, some of those people who saw my type as a threat are no longer
seeing me in such a way, may be I've got more cute and less threatening
these days. Although I can hear in the background, in this space (as one
friend is reading over head as I write this), some chance - lol.
My most positive and encouraging experience of collaboration is from when
'backspace.org' was thriving in London. I found it the most free thinking
and flexible environment that I have ever been part of. And everyone was
very excited, all type of people from all walks of life were working
together. Non - specialization was part of its function, not necessarily its
dictate, it just felt right. People were open abput exchanging ideas and
sharing them and collaborating on mutual terms. Sadly it no longer exists,
and much of that kind of collective unity is missing now. So if one is
accused of wanting to hark back to a certain period, that's one of mine.
>The real 'heroic
>period' is now, because it is a time when the Internet &
>its many users/artists can collaborate to do something
>that is potentially exciting (at last).
>
e:I feel like there are some exciting things happening, but I don't feel
any of this matches the initial excitement of "the heroic period." But
also, the heroic period is what? 1994 to 1999? I mean a lot of that
excitement was just the excitement of the net. I've been feeling for a
while that the novelty of "net.art" in its purest definition - art that
reflects a network prescience- is less interesting now that it is widely
used. The next wave will, as you said, be linked to blogs, personal
expression, an exploration of what can be said with the medium more so
than exploring what the medium is. You'll always have both, I think, but
now that we have figured out how to mix paints it's only natural to
start looking at what we can say with them. As you say:
>I am a great believer in 'content', in whatever context.
>Like yourself, I can see that Net Art is changing. It is
>a many headed horse, traveling in directions that (hopefully)
>have no finality. I feel that I am exploring, discovering
>new ways of reading, looking, experiencing and whether it is
>code, image, text is of no importance - what is important
>is that the creator's intentions are real. This is where
>interpretation comes in again.
>
m:Personally, at the moment I am enjoying playing around with java script &
learning bits of pearl (in a limited way). Java script is an amazing way of
creating& it reminds me of painting, like scripts for a palette. As in
ASCII, I have always been keen on viewing it and using it.
I am not like 'Daniel' who seems to be advocating single user programs
(single medium). Although, this does not mean that I think that others
should not continue to carry on with such endeavors. Multi-program use, is
probably just my own fascination. I am much more interested in the micro
connecting to the macro, thus relational connections in many different ways.
I believe that if our networked imaginations are to somehow sustain a way of
being free from dictated agendas, there must be some form of freedom from
singular thought, not just physically, emotionally, psychologically and
strategically. Lateral consciousness is thinking of the bigger picture,
taking on Quantum ideas as possibilities for imaginative directions and
network thought can enhance this type of liberated thought.
Regarding to network activity or creativity or status, this has as you say
has calmed down dramatically in various parts of the world. But in the UK,
there is a type of revolution happening here, spinning of the back of BT
being too slow to implement adsl lines. http://consume.net are a good
example of how things are gearing towards individuals/groups now using nodes
all over the country to broadcast their music/art etc. It is true that the
differentiation between net art and web art may be less significant.
Especially now that certain institutions have taken in those who were
advocating such philosophies at the so called 'heroic period'. In the UK,
things are hotting up, getting very exciting cuz of all the network stuff
and because of the blog situation, linked very much to networked groups and
its applications. Be ready, it's bubbling... you got warchalking, loads of
ace stuff happening which once again liberates the way we use technology for
the user via free access.
e:Intentions sure, but I think we're going to move into an area where
results are looked at with a stronger eye, as well- I think the
experimentation for experimentations sake might start running out of
gas. Specifically in web art; maybe not new media as a whole.
m:I agree, I do not consider myself as an experimenter for its sake. Like
yourself, I have values that motivate my work and sculpture its outcome.
Exploring is not experimentation, it is acknowledging experience and
learning, then afterwards one declares the results in a format that
communicates in some way. As a web artist and net artist, I do not like to
fall into either catagory, for I have been seeing some interesting & thought
provoking work in either camps & I know that you are not pitting them
against each other, but there are those who would love one camp to fall to
make room for the other. I do not believe in this sort of divide and rule
tactic as
a healthy way to go forward; it follows the masculine rule of survival of
the fittest. We have got to be intuitive and playful, hopeful, fresh to let
others in who are offering us alternative ways of being, seeing, hearing,
feeling etc.
best wishes - marc
>I tend to think that when one moves backwards, one is
>psychologically afraid of something (I could be wrong).
>
e:I'm curious why pages looking like one38.org is a step backwards? :)
m:Yeah ok - you know I didn't mean that you cute ass.
(or you haven't read my nice emails to you)
I rate your site, and I would never consider your
imaginings, collaborative or singular as a step backwards.
>The 'heroic period' is a mythology invented by those who
>were lucky enough to be accepted by institutions at the
>time. A harking back to a certain time, but in reality it
>was elitist. And open only a to few.
e: Hmmm, I have to disagree. I was around for the "heroic period" and found
it extraordinarily open. I was an unknown 17 year old from a suburb and
I was able to fly to Europe, give lectures, attend lectures, hang out
and have dinner with JODI and some people from I/O/D...
Whether this makes me part of the elite- a very real possibility of
right place / right time, I don't know, but I didn't feel like there was
a lot of condescention from anyone in the community at the time.
(Although I've never aggressively persued the title of "heroic period"
artist, since I don't see a bulk of my work having been done in those
years, and I don't really feel it's important to be a part of the "first
wave," even if I was hanging around for it.) There were some critics and
some mailing list admins etc etc etc who didn't have what could be
precisely open arms, but there was certainly no condescention from the
artists themselves. A lot of the work was open -Alexei's desktop expo,
the 7-11 list (+ keiko suzuki), and I am sure there are more.
m: This must be a situational thing, because for me it was very different,
and I am not hard to get on with. Not like some neurotic self 'id' driven
dudes who are not interested in anything else other than their own singular
mission. I sneaked in using a heath bunting copy 'id', which he forged for
me at the 'next 5 minutes' conference in 95, Amsterdam; and my experience
which is a barometer I tend to trust (not always a precise one I am the
first to admit), was that there were a lot of institutions touting for
talent, and if the talent was affiliated to institutions themselves, the
likelihood of exchange for the artist was more likely to be recognised.
Having said this, times are different now, although it has taken a while,
many projects that I embark on are taken seriously; and to be 'extra' honest
they are what I have been trying to do for ages. But now a shift has taken
place and caertain people are able to realize the intentions/ideas behind
certain projects easier.
Another thing that is easily forgotten, is that branding is an important
part of 'singular' net activity. Many types of groups have branded
themsleves as a certain 'item', so that they are easier to see, which is
quite inportant if the content is pretty much obscure or challenging in some
respects. Networks are hard to brand as a philosophy or art practise.
In my early net days, I was literally a net artist, using BBS systems &
exchanging information via the phone line, to groups like 'New World
Disorder' & 'Fast Breeder', using 'linux' setups, from 92. Even using actual
payphones for projects as well, linked up with pirate radio broadcasts. But
because I had personally made the decision that creativity does not have to
come from institutions to be valid. I found that this kind of idea was
not going to get you much attention. Certain people assumed that I was
threat and reacted in a negative way towards me and some of the dudes I
worked with at the time. I was only trying make real what certain other
groups were advocating but in reality were not acting out. But there is no
bitterness, some of those people who saw my type as a threat are no longer
seeing me in such a way, may be I've got more cute and less threatening
these days. Although I can hear in the background, in this space (as one
friend is reading over head as I write this), some chance - lol.
My most positive and encouraging experience of collaboration is from when
'backspace.org' was thriving in London. I found it the most free thinking
and flexible environment that I have ever been part of. And everyone was
very excited, all type of people from all walks of life were working
together. Non - specialization was part of its function, not necessarily its
dictate, it just felt right. People were open abput exchanging ideas and
sharing them and collaborating on mutual terms. Sadly it no longer exists,
and much of that kind of collective unity is missing now. So if one is
accused of wanting to hark back to a certain period, that's one of mine.
>The real 'heroic
>period' is now, because it is a time when the Internet &
>its many users/artists can collaborate to do something
>that is potentially exciting (at last).
>
e:I feel like there are some exciting things happening, but I don't feel
any of this matches the initial excitement of "the heroic period." But
also, the heroic period is what? 1994 to 1999? I mean a lot of that
excitement was just the excitement of the net. I've been feeling for a
while that the novelty of "net.art" in its purest definition - art that
reflects a network prescience- is less interesting now that it is widely
used. The next wave will, as you said, be linked to blogs, personal
expression, an exploration of what can be said with the medium more so
than exploring what the medium is. You'll always have both, I think, but
now that we have figured out how to mix paints it's only natural to
start looking at what we can say with them. As you say:
>I am a great believer in 'content', in whatever context.
>Like yourself, I can see that Net Art is changing. It is
>a many headed horse, traveling in directions that (hopefully)
>have no finality. I feel that I am exploring, discovering
>new ways of reading, looking, experiencing and whether it is
>code, image, text is of no importance - what is important
>is that the creator's intentions are real. This is where
>interpretation comes in again.
>
m:Personally, at the moment I am enjoying playing around with java script &
learning bits of pearl (in a limited way). Java script is an amazing way of
creating& it reminds me of painting, like scripts for a palette. As in
ASCII, I have always been keen on viewing it and using it.
I am not like 'Daniel' who seems to be advocating single user programs
(single medium). Although, this does not mean that I think that others
should not continue to carry on with such endeavors. Multi-program use, is
probably just my own fascination. I am much more interested in the micro
connecting to the macro, thus relational connections in many different ways.
I believe that if our networked imaginations are to somehow sustain a way of
being free from dictated agendas, there must be some form of freedom from
singular thought, not just physically, emotionally, psychologically and
strategically. Lateral consciousness is thinking of the bigger picture,
taking on Quantum ideas as possibilities for imaginative directions and
network thought can enhance this type of liberated thought.
Regarding to network activity or creativity or status, this has as you say
has calmed down dramatically in various parts of the world. But in the UK,
there is a type of revolution happening here, spinning of the back of BT
being too slow to implement adsl lines. http://consume.net are a good
example of how things are gearing towards individuals/groups now using nodes
all over the country to broadcast their music/art etc. It is true that the
differentiation between net art and web art may be less significant.
Especially now that certain institutions have taken in those who were
advocating such philosophies at the so called 'heroic period'. In the UK,
things are hotting up, getting very exciting cuz of all the network stuff
and because of the blog situation, linked very much to networked groups and
its applications. Be ready, it's bubbling... you got warchalking, loads of
ace stuff happening which once again liberates the way we use technology for
the user via free access.
e:Intentions sure, but I think we're going to move into an area where
results are looked at with a stronger eye, as well- I think the
experimentation for experimentations sake might start running out of
gas. Specifically in web art; maybe not new media as a whole.
m:I agree, I do not consider myself as an experimenter for its sake. Like
yourself, I have values that motivate my work and sculpture its outcome.
Exploring is not experimentation, it is acknowledging experience and
learning, then afterwards one declares the results in a format that
communicates in some way. As a web artist and net artist, I do not like to
fall into either catagory, for I have been seeing some interesting & thought
provoking work in either camps & I know that you are not pitting them
against each other, but there are those who would love one camp to fall to
make room for the other. I do not believe in this sort of divide and rule
tactic as
a healthy way to go forward; it follows the masculine rule of survival of
the fittest. We have got to be intuitive and playful, hopeful, fresh to let
others in who are offering us alternative ways of being, seeing, hearing,
feeling etc.
best wishes - marc
Re: A Critical Distinction Between Using It and Exploring It
Hi Daniel,
> I pose this question: As a general standard for judging artwork on the
web, can we give a higher value to work that says something WITH or THROUGH
the medium than work that says something ABOUT the medium? Stated in terms
of Mr. Salvaggio's comparison of the internet to a phone service, can we
give a higher value to work that says something WITH or THROUGH the phone
service than work that says something ABOUT the phone service? Substitute
radio, television, cinema,or printing machine for phone service, if you
like.
This is a very interesting question - these days I would find it hard to
answer this as clearly as I would of a while back. For I am now discovering
that much relational behavior can be viewed as art function even though it
would not be accepted as art due to it not being a 'conscious act' of art.
This is because there are many links that networked creativity is aligned
with, that just by being there creates the circumstance of creativity as an
activity, rather than deliberate and focused. August Highland is not
necessarily the right dude or machine to hit upon, for behind the work there
is a mind or minds acting acting, making decisions even though they are
generic; it comes from an art place. Yet with regard to whether one calls a
phone line art or not? Well, why not? For art does not necessarily have to
be kept in the realms of human physicality as a starting point or
conception. Intention creates art traditionally, yet movement and function
can do also. Also pure manipulation is reasonable, just because it is, not
because one wants it to be. For instance, if one looks at nature one could
consider a tree an amazing work of art, but we did not create the biological
blueprint for that tree.
So in a sense, we are now experiencing generative works that do not adhere
to human needs or desire in respect of formal/culturalized 'language' based
communication; yet offering new ways of experiencing the haze, as a
networked activity, and one does not have to know who did it. I see much of
the generative art movement as still very young and I feel that there is
much to learn from it, for all who are concerned and not concerned or merely
interested.
Personally, I find it exhilarating because it does not desire recognition in
the same way as most artists do. It defies that 'sucky' thing that we all
mostly fall for to some degree. In that, there is a quality that I can
admire, for that demands a no compromise situation. Hence, frustrations will
occur at a regular basis for those who wish to experience communication or
the illusion of it, one must not forget that there is such a thing as the
'user illusion'.
'Consciousness is at once the most immediately present and the most
inscrutably intangible entity in human existence. Consciousness lags what we
call reality'.
'Consciousness is riddled with deceit and self-deception. The conscious I is
happy to lie up hill and down dale to achieve a rational explanation for
what the body is up to; sensual perception is the result of a devious
relocation of sensory input in time; when the consciousness thinks it
determines to act, the brain is already working on it; there appears to be
more than one version of consciousness present in the brain; our conscious
awareness contains almost no information but is perceived as if it were
vastly rich in information'. The User Illusion, Cutting Consciousness Down
to Size, by Tor Norretranders, published 1991 in Danish, English translation
1998.
The deliberate act can be seen as an illusion so therefore accepting that we
are influenced by many factors that transcend singular notion, I would
advocate that we recognize that we are all right now experiencing many
different things that at present cannot be realistically define. The growth
of systems cannot yet be proven as non emotional. Critical distinction is an
emotional action...and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it is
acknowledged as such.
marc
> I pose this question: As a general standard for judging artwork on the
web, can we give a higher value to work that says something WITH or THROUGH
the medium than work that says something ABOUT the medium? Stated in terms
of Mr. Salvaggio's comparison of the internet to a phone service, can we
give a higher value to work that says something WITH or THROUGH the phone
service than work that says something ABOUT the phone service? Substitute
radio, television, cinema,or printing machine for phone service, if you
like.
This is a very interesting question - these days I would find it hard to
answer this as clearly as I would of a while back. For I am now discovering
that much relational behavior can be viewed as art function even though it
would not be accepted as art due to it not being a 'conscious act' of art.
This is because there are many links that networked creativity is aligned
with, that just by being there creates the circumstance of creativity as an
activity, rather than deliberate and focused. August Highland is not
necessarily the right dude or machine to hit upon, for behind the work there
is a mind or minds acting acting, making decisions even though they are
generic; it comes from an art place. Yet with regard to whether one calls a
phone line art or not? Well, why not? For art does not necessarily have to
be kept in the realms of human physicality as a starting point or
conception. Intention creates art traditionally, yet movement and function
can do also. Also pure manipulation is reasonable, just because it is, not
because one wants it to be. For instance, if one looks at nature one could
consider a tree an amazing work of art, but we did not create the biological
blueprint for that tree.
So in a sense, we are now experiencing generative works that do not adhere
to human needs or desire in respect of formal/culturalized 'language' based
communication; yet offering new ways of experiencing the haze, as a
networked activity, and one does not have to know who did it. I see much of
the generative art movement as still very young and I feel that there is
much to learn from it, for all who are concerned and not concerned or merely
interested.
Personally, I find it exhilarating because it does not desire recognition in
the same way as most artists do. It defies that 'sucky' thing that we all
mostly fall for to some degree. In that, there is a quality that I can
admire, for that demands a no compromise situation. Hence, frustrations will
occur at a regular basis for those who wish to experience communication or
the illusion of it, one must not forget that there is such a thing as the
'user illusion'.
'Consciousness is at once the most immediately present and the most
inscrutably intangible entity in human existence. Consciousness lags what we
call reality'.
'Consciousness is riddled with deceit and self-deception. The conscious I is
happy to lie up hill and down dale to achieve a rational explanation for
what the body is up to; sensual perception is the result of a devious
relocation of sensory input in time; when the consciousness thinks it
determines to act, the brain is already working on it; there appears to be
more than one version of consciousness present in the brain; our conscious
awareness contains almost no information but is perceived as if it were
vastly rich in information'. The User Illusion, Cutting Consciousness Down
to Size, by Tor Norretranders, published 1991 in Danish, English translation
1998.
The deliberate act can be seen as an illusion so therefore accepting that we
are influenced by many factors that transcend singular notion, I would
advocate that we recognize that we are all right now experiencing many
different things that at present cannot be realistically define. The growth
of systems cannot yet be proven as non emotional. Critical distinction is an
emotional action...and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it is
acknowledged as such.
marc