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Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace
Marcos Novak
Marcos Novak starts by giving us a quick rundown of what cyberspace is (as it was 15 years ago), and then he starts to focus on the sort of enviornment cyberspace makes for artistic thought. Novak thinks that cyberspace is a fantastic habitat for "poetic" thought, and assures us bringing the two together (Cyberspace and it's human counterpart) that it is in fact an architectural problem. He notes devices that will be able to plug our erogenous zones into the computer, and our minds ability to interpret the stimuli as real. Through the computer, reality/fantasy merge together, and the mind experiences "liquid architecture". He then goes on to talk enthusiastically about technical breakthroughs (mostly regarding interaction and navigation) that have already happend.
Peter Lunenfeld
Technocultures: Commodity Camaraderie"
Perter Lunenfelds discusses the new challenges and pitfalls that await modern (digital) artists in this age of the "dead author", and capitalism as interpereted by Karl Marx. The resulting effect is one of "hackerdom", which arises in times of plenty, when professional esteem is more important than currency. Generated from the rapid dispersion of technical tools is "Commodity camaraderie". For the most part, this could be defined as a camaraderie between people with an interest in the latest technical gadgets and gizmos that Lunenfeld reffers to as "technoculture" or "Techno Volksgeist". The people that engage in this specific volksgeist develop a jargon, set of ethics, and everything else that comes with a tightly bound union of enthusiests.
Daniel Harris: The Futuristic:
Daniel Harris begins by lementing the new and shrill electronic ring of the modern telephone. The sound, Harris comments, is troubling because it's unlike anything else you'll ever hear in nature; more than that, the function of the phone is practically the same. For the sake of an aura of futurism, the products we buy are now garbed in space-age costumes, but their funtionality is anything but. The unfortunate result of this garbing is that the consumer becomes more and more ignorant, and mythologies around techonology develope; they become bigger and more important than what they really are.
Marcos Novak
Marcos Novak starts by giving us a quick rundown of what cyberspace is (as it was 15 years ago), and then he starts to focus on the sort of enviornment cyberspace makes for artistic thought. Novak thinks that cyberspace is a fantastic habitat for "poetic" thought, and assures us bringing the two together (Cyberspace and it's human counterpart) that it is in fact an architectural problem. He notes devices that will be able to plug our erogenous zones into the computer, and our minds ability to interpret the stimuli as real. Through the computer, reality/fantasy merge together, and the mind experiences "liquid architecture". He then goes on to talk enthusiastically about technical breakthroughs (mostly regarding interaction and navigation) that have already happend.
Peter Lunenfeld
Technocultures: Commodity Camaraderie"
Perter Lunenfelds discusses the new challenges and pitfalls that await modern (digital) artists in this age of the "dead author", and capitalism as interpereted by Karl Marx. The resulting effect is one of "hackerdom", which arises in times of plenty, when professional esteem is more important than currency. Generated from the rapid dispersion of technical tools is "Commodity camaraderie". For the most part, this could be defined as a camaraderie between people with an interest in the latest technical gadgets and gizmos that Lunenfeld reffers to as "technoculture" or "Techno Volksgeist". The people that engage in this specific volksgeist develop a jargon, set of ethics, and everything else that comes with a tightly bound union of enthusiests.
Daniel Harris: The Futuristic:
Daniel Harris begins by lementing the new and shrill electronic ring of the modern telephone. The sound, Harris comments, is troubling because it's unlike anything else you'll ever hear in nature; more than that, the function of the phone is practically the same. For the sake of an aura of futurism, the products we buy are now garbed in space-age costumes, but their funtionality is anything but. The unfortunate result of this garbing is that the consumer becomes more and more ignorant, and mythologies around techonology develope; they become bigger and more important than what they really are.