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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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Tina LaPorta wrote:
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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.
I'm not sure like you because you are driving your mind in a specific context
called media art.Art is a xultural phenomenon and we have to kkep in mind that
occidental art, also contemporary art and specially media art is a little
phenomenon in a global human context.....
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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.
much more on interhuman interactions in ethnic context...
Valery Grancher
vgranger@imaginet.fr
http://www.fondation.cartier.fr (virtual gallery)
http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory
http://wintermute.aec.at/nomemory
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