[nodel-discuss] nodel news mailing list july experiment proposal

[julie freeman]

Hi Armin, aLL

:)

I know "technology and it's aesthetic" is a very reductionist view  
point.

What I don't know is if you are a minority. I agree with you that  
it's about creating space, but would also argue that that space, any  
space, has to have a sensorial aesthetic for it to be a space that  
can be entered into/watched/abused/...  I also think there is room  
for media arts spaces to exist for reasons outside just  
'deconcealing' the fetishes you mention, although I'm interested to  
hear if you think most works could be classified in that manner?

Julie

On 13 Oct 2009, at 07:39, Armin Medosch wrote:

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> Julie
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> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 23:03 +0100, julie freeman wrote:
>> I get the point that the db design is important but I'd say equally
>> important as the visualisation. NODE.London is primarily about media
>> arts which for me means it's about technology and it's aesthetic,
>
> interesting viewpoint that media arts should primarily be about
> technology and its aesthetic. I always thought it is about creating
> communal, shared spaces for reciprocal exchanges and, as those spaces
> exist in an overal political economy that fetishises technology and  
> the
> fantasy of rational mastery and control, of deconcealing those  
> fetishes
> as what they are and showing alternatives. But I guess I am a minority
> best
> armin
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