Patrick Lichty
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"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees.

Actually, perhaps the whole circuit bending genre, which depends
entirely on a "naive style" approach to reverse engineering, might be
one of the first that could be defined as folk art. I really like this
idea.

Is there a New Media "Outsider Art"?

Patrick Lichty
Editor-In-Chief
Intelligent Agent Magazine
http://www.intelligentagent.com
1556 Clough Street, #28
Bowling Green, OH 43402
225 288 5813
voyd@voyd.com

"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] On Behalf
Of curt cloninger
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:54 AM
To: list@rhizome.org
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Electronic Folk Art?!

cool.

check:
http://www.casperelectronics.com
http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/
http://www.blingmethod.com

_

Angela Cachay Dwyer wrote:

> Do-it-yourself robotic toys, homebrew vidgames, ASCII images, homemade
> software - could these be a kind of 21st century folk art?
>
> Roundtable with artists and academics
> Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, BC)
> Sunday, February 6, 2 - 3:30pm
> Free admission
> www.surreytechlab.ca
> Location and directions are available from the website
>
>
***********************************************************************
> What is electronic folk art?
> Is it an art practice that is culturally specific to North America?
> Is anyone who appropriates electronic toys, tools and software for
> their art an electronic folk artist?
> What are the possible forms of electronic folk art?
>
> Artists and academics will share their thoughts on these questions,
> and whether electronic folk art exists as a distinct area of
> contemporary art in general and/or within the realm of new media.
>
> The invited speakers are:
> * Diana Burgoyne (current exhibiting artist and PHD student in
> Interactive Arts, Simon Fraser University)
> * Don Krug (theorist; folk art researcher and curriculum specialist,
> University of British Columbia)
> * Leonard Paul (electronic music composer - lauded for his score for
> the film The Corporation, and video game audio instructor, Vancouver
> Film School)
> * Niranjan Rajah (theorist; curator and convenor, New Forms Festival
> 2005)
>
> Networking reception (3:30 - 5pm) following the Roundtable.
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Sorry to be so understated this year - not usually my MO.
Expect to hear a lot more from me in the coming year.

However, best from Leigh & I, & IA.

Best,
Patrick Lichty
Leigh Clemons
Intelligent Agent
et al...

I think that in many cases, there hasn't been that much to discuss.
There's been a lull in good work, or at least meaty thought on the
subject.
I think a new wave is coming with the consideration of the historical,
but I got a note for a new book on the history of new media from
1715-1914?

Ok, I'm going to get this volume, but this seems like a book that is
constructing a historical context that may or may not be there. What I
call a, "Tactical Reality" to validate New Media.

Under my criteria, New media really has to do with electronic
computation as one of its core components. Therefore, I really doubt
that anyone's going to make a good argument for what we conceive as new
media art before the 60's.

Back to the discussion topic.

I for one have been swamped. I'm entering academia at the moment, and I
had no idea what demands they were going to impose. Also, I've been
putting together ideas for larger texts, which is another matter
entirely.

And of course, IA & the Yes Men (when I have something to do for them)
keep me hopping.

I tend to agree that this is a great gesture.
I am also very happy to see that they have stopped the project.
One of the largest problems that I see in this day and age is what I
call "The Exhaustion of the Symbol", in which the repetition of any
idea, symbol, gesture, expression drains it of meaning. This has been a
concern in regards to US medical practice, which has begun to
standardize methods of contriteness for mistakes.

I don't want to say I'm sorry, I want to BE apologetic and try to live
it.

And as an unrelated missive, I just learned that McDonalds is beginning
to use call centers to outsource order taking at drive thrus.

Makes my outsourced art seem quite tame in comparison.

Patrick Lichty
Editor-In-Chief
Intelligent Agent Magazine
http://www.intelligentagent.com
1556 Clough Street, #28
Bowling Green, OH 43402
225 288 5813
voyd@voyd.com

"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] On Behalf
Of Lee Wells
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:19 PM
To: rhizome; rob and mike - nerdtronica.com postfixE; Bill O'brian
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Sorry Everybody

This is very touching.
FYI
Lee

Some of us < hopefully most of us < are trying to understand and
appreciate
the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the
rest of
the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you
over, please remember that some of us < hopefully most of us < are
truly,
truly sorry. And we'll say we're sorry, even on the behalf of the ones
who
aren't.

http://sorryeverybody.com/

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