RE: [microsound] "Expanded Cinema"

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yup. i still believe in content.

i hope the tool is not the message for too much longer :)

when does the message get to be the message?

or the massage? damn my wrist hurts.

David Fodel
Publishing Systems Manager
Wild Oats Markets
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Boulder, CO 80301
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> From: 	kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Sent: 	Monday, July 15, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	Re: [microsound] "Expanded Cinema"
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> > Electronic Arts Intermix in NYC is the distributor for a lot of this
> > stuff.
> 
> the experimental films being shown at the performance i posted about
> earlier are in a similar vein.
> 
> for me, this odd lost genre of experimental film + video raise the
> "digital vs analogue" question. probably a lot of people on this list were
> aware of autechre before they were aware of bernard parmegiani,
> or knew oval before they'd heard xenakis' tape works.
> 
> it's shocking to find such concrete evidence that ideas aren't necessarily
> tied to a specific technology. parmegiani + xenakis (and hundreds of
> others)
> were able to achieve radical + complete expression with tools that we now
> consider primitive...in spite of the tools, not because of them.
> 
> sometimes it almost seems like some artists must have foreseen the future
> (did the silver apples invent techno in 1968?).
> 
> similarly, scott bartlett (whose "serpent" will show at the performance i
> posted about) seems to have time-travelled to the present, absorbed
> Nato + AfterEffects + Flash, jumped back to his own era + used a 16mm
> optical printer to create films that put all the digital crap to shame...
> 
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