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Zozzy
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Tue, 22 May 2001 16:55:11 +0200
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[idm] Re: is IDM art?
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On 22 May 2001 03:42:42 -0000, you wrote:
quoted 6 lines "…in the electric age there is no longer any sense in talking about the artist’s>"…in the electric age there is no longer any sense in talking about the artist’s >being ahead of his time. Our technology, also, is ahead of its time, if we reckon >by our ability to recognize it for what it is… Just as higher education is no >longer a frill or luxury but a stark need of production and operational design in >the electric age, so the artist is indispensable in the shaping and analysis and >understanding of the life of forms, and structures created by electric technology."
Here's a quote from Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) that seemed relevant (but my mind is maxed out at the moment so who knows? ;) Peace Zoz "I think that when people several centuries in the future look back at the 20th century, they'll probably see the signs of a world civilisation being consumed by the communication technologies it used. To me, music is a mirror that we hold up to see how cultural structures are formed. Race, social heirachy, class, national origin: the 20th century saw a questioning of these issues on a global level, and in a sense, electronic music was the soundtrack to that intense investigation into the human situation. Almost all traditional notions of space, time, and physicality have been reconfigured in ways that we are just beginning to understand. I think that electronic music has helped us understand the process we've lived through. Think about everything from the tones you hear coming through the telephone to the frequencies underlying cellular communications to the algorithms used to route in the information holding it all together - most of this stuff has been explored by the avant-guarde. Industry & science develop the materials, but artists & composers are called upon to dream of different ways of using them." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Orblike - Orbitalesque - Art of Noise-ish The Love Frequency: http://www.mp3.com/tlf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org