Re: [microsound] Net-Art vs electronic music

[Niklas Werner <bergtroll@xxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:21, tobias c. van Veen wrote:


> This is like saying there is no video art, as it's basically short
> film. And there is no film, as basically it's an extended Magic
> Lantern, and there is no Magic Lantern as basically it's a projected
> photograph, which is basically a daguerreotype, which is basically a
> metallic painting, which is basically a cave painting, which is
> basically fecal mimicry (according to Lacan), and perhaps (although not
> necessarily) finally, basically the generalized system of signs and
> desire.
No, I have to disagree there, you could reduce anything to signs and 
systems.
You can certainly have a totally banal item placed in a different context 
(read distributed differently) be a piece of art.
But once repeated too often the effect is gone. So Net.art must include 
the aesthetics of the medium to be valid nowadays.

>
>         . medium = message
>
If this were so, what would entropy be then?
Why is there hermeneutics?

> To crack this reduction of video-art to net-art and start understanding
> the effects and affects of "distribution," the language of the
> database,
>
> -->  Lev Manovich's _Language of New Media_.
>
Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out.

>
> SOUND. NET. In any case, the reason I wanted to comment here was I am
> curious if anyone is applying the Net in/through their sound works. I
> did a number of sound pieces for the Net throughout 1998-2001, most of
> it is archived here:
www.quintet-net.org
www.peersynth.de
www.soundbyte.org

Google for:
- FMOL
- JSynth/Webdrum


Cheers

Niklas
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