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RE Stahl Stenslie's "Bridging the gap between the real and the
digital seems to be of interest to the councils of the electronic art
community"
Ah yes, even you, with your insight and foresight, keep talking about
"reality" as if there is such a phenomena. As if there is such an objective
entity.
The whole hang-up hinges on the fact that most people still believe that
there is such a thing as Reality, that they know what that means and that
other phenomena are to be measured in its terms.
Of course our species is changing. It has to. It is causing itself to do so.
Someday the "freaks" will be this old-fashioned, shortsighted, primitive
proto-human that took millenia to 'get it together' and tap its own potential
and that of the universe.
I'd like to talk to you again in 100 years. And again in 1000, though by then
we'd have a hard time finding our way, unless, in another level of our
holographic universe, we were able to mutate and keep up. As we look back
then, the most appaling thing will be to view today's intellectual density
and humanity's almost universal shortsightedness!
Of course we'd probably also have to try to locate our physical decendants'
new home(s)!
Today, at the threshold of a new century that will also be a new era, I keep
hoping to find practicing artists who have allowed themselves to stretch
their imagination to include the 'realities' of out future! Instead, ever
since the advent of the personal computer, I've found the every day art world
to be among the most conservative! Surprising! Shocking! Disappointing!
Most of the new media art comes from corporations, (the new cyber'body'?)
while individual artists barely pay lip-service to the newly expanded
potential.
Perhaps it is time to encourage more individuality and stage some symposia
directed at involving independent, individual artists only! These issues are
important for everyone!
Josepha Haveman, Berkeley
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