As I have been working the last few years, I keep coming back to questions of authenticity, presence, and the post-human. I think that death is one place where the overwhelming weight of humanity (both in the end of the individual and the reverberation this loss sends through the communities to which that person belongs) can show itself to us in a powerful way. Even though this loss is not personal to me, I cannot help but feel its gravity in the many messages left on his myspace page.
Usually such intimate things don’t make it into academic discussions. But it really adds some perspective to my work…
Thank you.
]]>Z: I love your idea of a movement between materials – I wonder what it would look like? Maybe something like the “interface free” touch screen that was introduced last year? Little compares to the pleasures of touching a book or a book object – I imagine your comic journal as a box of loose cards that can be arranged and rearranged, over and over again. what could replicate this experience in the digital realm?
H: that’s great you mention the futurists – I haven’t done much reading on them but I’m still fascinated with the few Marinetti statements I know of where he talks about his dream of a cinematic poem…
]]>You brilliantly weave ideas and poetics in this post. Bravo…really…bravo….
As far as 3-d structures, I am fascinated by futurists predictions that one day we will truly have virtual/holosuites or some such real world interactive spaces. And then I consider early and current experiments with 3-d and I find sadly that we have not even come close to exploring the possibilities and wonders of late 90s 3-d technologies/playthings. Let alone how we use and create with current techs and future possible iterations. So it would seem that revisiting these “older” forms would be a grand idea for our wee little field.
]]>To refer back to the previous, or later post about depth, this would create added layering to how we understand our experiences. This in fact is really easy to do in flash, and I am surprised few are actually exploring this….does anyone know of any examples?
]]>You mention reflection which I would suggest is the same as interact or create, at least when I consider digital poetry. The user reflects by existing/crating within/interacting with the artwork.
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