1 condensation of "Data Diaries" discussion 2.18.03

1 condensation of "Data Diaries" discussion 2.18.03

> DATA DIARIES is 11 hours of video footage which was
> generated by
> tricking Quicktime into thinking the RAM of a home
> computer is video.
> This was done once for each day in January 2003.
> Watch as Cory's emails,
> letters, webpages, DSL data, songs, and anything
> else he worked on that
> day float by >
..but of course that's not what we see at all. There's
no way the viewer can know that what is on the screen
has some connection to Cory's this and that except by
way of the artist statement.
Take the 'concept' away and the poverty of the thing
immediately becomes apparent - if the artist simply
constructed the images we see we might say, OK that's
vaguely interesting and attractive in a kind of
wallpaper way for about 2 seconds but 11 hours
…please!
By far the most interesting thing about the piece is
the neat lo fi handwritten bubbles and the general
presentation of the piece, but then maybe that took a
little bit of craft.
michael <[email protected]>

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first that argument never wins. there's nothing wrong
with having to know a few things to appreciate an
artwork. you've been trained from birth to look at
media in different ways and there is no reason why you
shouldn't learn something that takes 15 seconds to
read to appreciate another level of this work.

the work itself is very interesting to look at without
knowing anything about it. what's interesting is it's
organic yet machine-like animation. it's full of
surprises if you watch it for a little while.

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