On the subject of installation in the new media ecology (see Tate Gallery post) I found the FurtherField studio interesting. The FurtherField studio website describes itself as:
…an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists. Each residency lasts for 3 months, during which time the artists need not leave their studio or home environments, as the FurtherStudio web facility offers a public window on the artist’s PC desktop as they work.
What they also do is have ‘conferences’ online where panel discussions with the artists are held in a chatroom that visitors can watch/read and then they all move to another chatroom where all can participate. But as Charlotte Frost, a panel interviewer lamented over at
I see it…we’re just learning how to use/participate with this new medium through play and serious venture.
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<blockquote>Because of the chat element, there is more scope to sidestep questions and/or engage in a lot of niceties – there is the constant desire to tell people if you are laughing at their remarks (lol) or being cheeky <img src='http://www.christydena.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Funnily enough, it was so fast it made lists seem like long laboured philosophical tomes and it was in parts so<br />chatty that I longed for the rigors of list life.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sven Birkerts has written and spoken about this in his books and numerous interviews.<br />
<blockquote>If I could be convinced that the Net and its users had a genuine purchase on depth, on the pursuit of things which are best pursued in stillness, in dread, and by way of patiently articulated language, then I would open wide my heart. I just don’t see it.</p></blockquote>
<p>[John Perry Barlow, Sven Birkerts, Kevin Kelly, Mark Slouka, ){kind=link}
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