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[Perry Noid]

by this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:15 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen pure internet art sites for a while, but years ago there
> were quite a few very abstract sites that allowed one to explore an
> unfolding visual experience by exploring multiple, usually hidden, click
> options.  No goals (as in a game), just visual experiences.  At one point I
> conceived, but never constructed, that kind of site based on a classic
> Tibetan mandala.  But its ambitions were beyond my skill or focus.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:07 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think in these instances it's art that uses the internet as a medium
>> - the instances mentioned use Twitter, Google Earth etc - but it's
>> more like saying painting or drawing than Impressionism or Art Brut.
>> Not a movement, just an objective descriptor.
>>
>> It's way better than "new media" being employed to describe anything
>> involving digital stuff. The hell is new media?
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 10:00 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Why must we conceptualize something called "internet art?"  It seems an
>> > argument based on a a shaky premise.  Technologies exist.  They may be
>> used,
>> > but the art produced isn't an art of the technology, unless that's what
>> the
>> > artist wants it to be.  The emergence of a technology doesn't imply the
>> > emergence of a new category of art, unless one wants to make it so.
>> >
>> > David Morris
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> A--and the rainbow planes look like the Vintage paperback cover to GR
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:28 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> This is a great short video on internet art with heavy reference to
>> >>> Pynchon. Worth a watch. Thanks Toby.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> https://aeon.co/videos/digital-art-can-help-us-see-and-judge-the-internet-before-it-consumes-everything
>> >>> -
>> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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