Re: tools

[david turgeon <dt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kim,

>anyway, my axiom is not meant to draw a distinction between
>tool/medium...you seem to have missed the point...the point of my little
>'mantra' is that the tool is now the message (in most media arts) whereas
>the medium is no longer the message...the tool and the medium are
>intersecting sets but do not share all the same elements...a hammer is not
>architecture any more than a laptop is music...

i would have to contend with tobias that you seem to be, then indeed, 
making a distinction between tool & media, & i wonder what that distinction 
between them is.

in what ways is the tool the message (in most media art) "whereas the 
medium is no longer the message"?  that's unclear to me.

have a nice day
~ david

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