Artists statement/questions
Nov. 21st, 2003 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avadfor the show, I had this up on the wall:
EVERYWHERE
My recent works are attempts to map the hybrid spaces we live in and to orient myself within a world that is continuously reconfigured with the evolution of digital networks.
Clusters of information spaces seem to self-organize in this dreamlike world in ways that are somewhat difficult but intriguing to envision. Every day physical spaces are being duplicated/recreated in cyber-architectures, which begin to accommodate us by echoing our familiar notions of space while still allowing for the increased freedoms of cyberspace. In the coming years, what will be the ratio of bricks to bits in our hybrid world? Will we be able to merge remembered spaces into the cyber-communities of the future?
As we spend more time in virtual environments, whether sending and receiving e-mail, exploring the web, or exchanging data, we act and communicate with others in spaces that are neither here nor there but somehow both and somewhere in between. We are simultaneously in our office and in their office, and also within an alternate and indescribable environment of free-floating, abundant and accessible information.
Most thought-provoking to me is that there is no Great Designer of the Web we experience. It is driven and evolves from the accumulated and changing movement, desires and interests of billions of individual users.
Once we think of cyberspace as a collective construction, new questions emerge: What do we wish for it to become? What and who can we access? What is the shape of our connectivity and what can we provide? Our personal networks, when mapped, span geographic, political and religious boundaries. Can our concerns really remain restricted within the small circumference of self-interest and the well-being of those closest to us?
From an aerial view, it is hard to ignore the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism. One might consider the Web as its growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. What is our role within this organism? What can it be?
EVERYWHERE
My recent works are attempts to map the hybrid spaces we live in and to orient myself within a world that is continuously reconfigured with the evolution of digital networks.
Clusters of information spaces seem to self-organize in this dreamlike world in ways that are somewhat difficult but intriguing to envision. Every day physical spaces are being duplicated/recreated in cyber-architectures, which begin to accommodate us by echoing our familiar notions of space while still allowing for the increased freedoms of cyberspace. In the coming years, what will be the ratio of bricks to bits in our hybrid world? Will we be able to merge remembered spaces into the cyber-communities of the future?
As we spend more time in virtual environments, whether sending and receiving e-mail, exploring the web, or exchanging data, we act and communicate with others in spaces that are neither here nor there but somehow both and somewhere in between. We are simultaneously in our office and in their office, and also within an alternate and indescribable environment of free-floating, abundant and accessible information.
Most thought-provoking to me is that there is no Great Designer of the Web we experience. It is driven and evolves from the accumulated and changing movement, desires and interests of billions of individual users.
Once we think of cyberspace as a collective construction, new questions emerge: What do we wish for it to become? What and who can we access? What is the shape of our connectivity and what can we provide? Our personal networks, when mapped, span geographic, political and religious boundaries. Can our concerns really remain restricted within the small circumference of self-interest and the well-being of those closest to us?
From an aerial view, it is hard to ignore the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism. One might consider the Web as its growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. What is our role within this organism? What can it be?
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Cyber architecture
Date: 2003-11-21 12:27 pm (UTC)Re: Cyber architecture
Date: 2003-11-21 12:32 pm (UTC)I'd be honored.
Re: Cyber architecture
Date: 2003-11-23 01:42 pm (UTC)Could you send me an e-mail to elektrix@simulatrix.com so I can send you a more private message in return?
Thank you! :-)
Julie aka rosylavie aka ElektriX
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:00 pm (UTC)I think I need to reread it to fully take it in.
lovely, as always.
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 04:52 pm (UTC)I'd like to see a fully interactive 3d environment where I'm capable of working, but someone else is capable of coming in through the net and tapping me on the shoulder to say hello in a more personal way than via a message. And I'd like to be able to walk down a hallway to reach your virtual art exhibit... etc. You get the idea. ;)
This in particular might interest you, darling:
http://interreality.org/
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Date: 2003-11-21 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 06:07 pm (UTC)*sigh* It'll be lovely, no?
I'm usually flying and zooming in...but I guess there are hallways once you enter the buildings through doors...;)
tap,tap.;)
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Date: 2003-11-21 08:11 pm (UTC)Also just in: I need more line graphics.
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Date: 2003-11-21 08:29 pm (UTC)When you say 'I as the designer' are you saying each person designing the web for themselves in a way, by altering the view/style of all the pages?
I'm unclear...wouldn't we want to see the diversity of billions?
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Date: 2003-11-21 08:32 pm (UTC)I'd probably choose weird fonts for everything, but I doubt I'd override anything else.
On the subject of weird fonts, Helvetica Neue rules, and I'm going to bed.
[implodes gently into a bundle of sleepy synaptic goop]
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Date: 2003-11-21 08:47 pm (UTC)and for when you wake:
I suppose I would only override something that I found difficult to read into something more legible...otherwise...I don't know..the idea seems wrong somehow..am I odd?
and what was it you were mumbling about line-graphics in between snores?
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Date: 2003-11-22 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-22 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 09:29 pm (UTC)I wish I had given these concepts more thought and done more research before I started writing, but doing it seems to be the best way of getting my head around it.
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Date: 2003-11-22 12:33 pm (UTC)Can't wait.
If I may be so visceral...
Date: 2003-11-22 12:53 am (UTC)You make me fucking shiver, every single time you come with this. Don't stop the music.
Re: If I may be so visceral...
Date: 2003-11-22 12:35 pm (UTC)hope
Date: 2003-12-05 01:09 pm (UTC)I'm hopeful too. Though I hope the world reconfigures itself to deny our tendencies, I would hope we come to understand the error inherent in this concept of themness first. Hidden dragons are harder to slay. Though dragons don't tend to go into hiding, they are much more adaptive than that. Themness propagates the net too; though I am as hopeful as you since it seems that on many important levels the net does seem to be humanities knight in shining armor.
Thank you for reminding me, as I've thought of this in similar terms, although I lack the skill and talent to communicate it as well. Wonderful.
Re: hope
Date: 2003-12-05 03:49 pm (UTC)I'm so glad you are hopeful too.
It may be a while before us and them dissolves...but with an ever-increasing flow of communication...the possibility of a forward movement is good enough for me!