Re: art & technology: an issue of audience?


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by alex galloway on April 24, 1997 at 03:03:00:

In Reply to: Re: art & technology: an issue of audience? posted by rachel greene on April 11, 1997 at 19:58:31:

: I think new media art gets stuck with regard to this aesthetic. It seems
: that when technology is involved, people still want to see simple,
: coherent, pretty things.

I've thought about that too... how can digital art make use of a degraded form?

many types of tech-based artistic production have capitalized upon their own technological shortcomings to produce degraded forms. the super8 camera, the xerox machine, the tape recorder... I just can't see new media art that uses no javascript, no frames, a gray background, black font and those silly horizontal line breaks.

I think this calls for a radically new form of digital creativity. remember how long it took for musicians to use digital feedback from CDs as a compositional tool? let's explore ways we can make a site *crumble* under its own weight.


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