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RE: INFOWAR: information and art
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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
http://www.aec.at/infowar
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>>Art isn't necessarily information, though it has things in common with
>>information.
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>Actually, art has more in common with communication than with information.
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>>It can inform. Art can even inform more succinctly than other
>>media, though it doesn't have to inform specifically.
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>Art communicates.... informing and communicating are quite different
>activities, don't you think? One indicates a dialogue based on an
>underlying idea. The other is quite flat and has very little to do with
>understanding or knowing.
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>>Art is based on imagination (coupled with style),
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>Art is based on life and a living body contains an imaginative way of
>expressing it's obsevations and curosities.
So where do "we" (you, me, and all the others reading this list) fit into the "infowar?" If information is productive and efficient while "art" is reactive and organic, could we say that we are the "fleshfactor" in the "infowar?" If so, what does that m
ean?
-j.
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