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.

follow ups:

• expectation & degradation Pete 19:20:32 4/24/97 (8)
  • Re: expectation & degradation Nino Rodriguez 15:30:14 5/05/97 (4)
    • Re: physical information [was degradation...].] Joseph NECHVATAL From: jnech@imaginet.fr (NECHVATAL Joseph) 11:22:37 5/06/97 (0)
    • Re: expectation & degradation alex galloway 15:37:48 5/05/97 (2)
      • Re: expectation & degradation: PORT murph the surf 11:15:22 5/06/97 (1)
        • Re: expectation & degradation Joseph NECHVATAL 11:19:42 5/06/97 (0)
  • Re: trompe l'oeil rachel greene 17:09:12 4/29/97 (2)
    • Re: trompe l'oeil anonymous 23:27:44 8/28/97 (1)
      • Re: trompe l'oeil anonymous 12:08:56 1/14/98 (0)

comments:

: : 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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