Yes, We Can – Blog Again
It’s time to start posting to AotN again. It’s been over six months since I finished the two courses on new media taught by Dr Christiane Paul at UC Berkeley, yet I have been incapable of producing a new post. The whole point of taking the courses was to help me write better posts.
But she was so good. And the readings she assigned were so good. Dr Paul is a true educator. She takes the mumbled, babbled question of a student, summarizes it far more eloquently than what was first voiced, then responds with a breadth and clarity that adds layers of extra meaning to the student’s original query. The readings from PDFs, web sites or the New Media Reader pushed deeper and deeper as the courses progressed and we students could reference the knowledge of previous readings on the later readings.
One work that she hardly mentioned is her own work Digital Art – which has just come out in a second edition. The image for this post is the book cover. I have just ordered a copy from Amazon.
I feel that my thoughts and writing style are so childish in comparison. Perhaps I can make up for the of the lack of quality with my enthusiasm. Nevertheless I am reminded of Sir Isaac Newton’s words “If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” But in my case, I am still standing somewhat nearer their giant armpits.
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 am
Hello Mr. Armour,
I’m Fabio Paris the owner of Fabio Paris Art Gallery, based in Italy.
I’m sorry with you, but I don’t have your email address, so I use your
blog for keep in touch ywith you.
In these days I read an article from Wall Street Journal Europe
http://europe.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574318373312061230.html
and in this article I read:
‘Private collector Theo Armour has recently started buying net.art, he says, because he senses
the chance to participate in a new artistic development, similar to invention of important art
forms such as cubist art. ‘.
It’s an emotion for me read a similar reflection about New Media Art so my brief consideration
declared on a book/catalogue exhibition edited from us in occasion of a New Media Art exhibition
last April 2008 in Bruxelles (Belgium) http://www.fpeditions.com/libri/schedaholyfire.html
In these book I wrote:
‘New Media Art is to the digital revolution as Impressionism is to the industrial revolution. A new era is coming, and this is just the beeginning’.
And it’s curiosu to find another ‘mind’ in the other part of the world who pull out similar interests.
The Fabio Paris Art Gallery selects and presents works that talk about the present: in a period when the relationship between man and the environment and culture is constantly being redefined by new discoveries, new technologies and new intellectual paradigms.
The pervasive nature of popular subcultures (from manga to videogames); the exploration of new arenas for life and artistic activity, and new declinations of identity (from the internet to virtual worlds); the increasingly ambiguous relationship between the biological and artificial domains, and the consequent quest for a more immediate, direct, profound rapport with nature; the exploration of the aesthetic consequences of digital technology and the socio-cultural impact of the media, and the rediscovery of machine as metaphor, simulacrum or fetish, are but a few of the themes that form the basis of the gallery’s work.
In these range of proposals, we work and rapresent some importants New media Artists.
- Gazira Babeli
- Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
- UBERMORGEN.COM
I ask you to keep in touch and if you wold like I present you the ‘HOLY FIRE art in the digital age’
book.
My best regards
Fabio Paris