Archive for August, 2000
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“I am fully convinced (that), if music be not allowed to grow, if it’s denied the privilege of evolution that all other arts and life have if (in the) natural processes of the ear and mind it is not allowed (to) grow bigger by finding possibilities that nature has for music, more and wider scales, [...]
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from Swarm Smarts: Engineers Find Solutions in Ant Colonies Heavy Lifting Another ant trick that has inspired Dorigo and Bonabeau is the way the insects team up to carry improbably large objects up steep slopes. Human movers carrying, say, a couch up a stairway might handle such a problem by talking each other through the [...]
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from A M E R I C A, by Jean Baudrillard (1986) [Translated in 1988 by Chris Turner from the original in French, Amerique] … This is echoed by the other obsession: that of being ‘into’, hooked in to your own brain. What people are contemplating on their word-processor screens is the operation of their [...]
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from Baudrillard on the New Technologies: An interview with Claude Thibaut Some people seem to be excited about videoconferencing. How can this desire to see each other to communicate be explained? In a real face to face encounter, there is a complex relation, in which each person is an actor at once both present and [...]
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from In the Post: or, the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Simulation by Brian Baker The “post” is a mark that implies failure, particularly in self-definition, and the collapse of the “New”; a collapse, as J.G. Ballard once suggested, of the future onto the present. The proliferation of “postmodernisms”–death of the master [...]
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Mutually Assured Deconstruction (((({{{�!?}}})))) The actual space is mirrored by a virtual space–people can move through the virtual space–hear the instruments and feedback to the performers in real time. Is it essential that people only view the work remotely? Part of the idea–the democritization of the performance process–is that the musicians and audience occupy the [...]
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from David Gelernter’s The Second Coming: a Manifesto 7. “The network is the computer” � yes; but we’re less interested in computers all the time. The real topic in astronomy is the cosmos, not telescopes. The real topic in computing is the Cybersphere and the cyberstructures in it, not the computers we use as telescopes [...]
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Interview with Kodwo Eshun First published in the Online Magazine Telepolis When painters paint, they are theorizing immanently in the field of paint. Sonically, when you compose, you are theorizing tonally. That was a key breakthrough. When I wrote my book it did not have to be historical. It could be a sonology of history, [...]
