Newsletter September '01 Pekka
Himanens "Die Hacker-Ethik und der Geist des
Informations-Zeitalters"
[German] Berlin
Beta 2001 - Flash-Award. Interview with
Laurence Rilly and Jens Schmidt
[German] Collaborative
Writing Project and Commercial Attack
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The author
isn't as dead as widely supposed. At least not
in the way hypertext theorist have
misinterpreted Barthes and Foucault. But what
about the reader? The reader disappears into the
event of a collaborative authorship, resulting
in text which represents the event of
collaboration but is not as interesting as the
text itself.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/30-Simanowski
A text
about surfaces and screens, flat mice and done
in cats, the longing for death in Internet and
the "binary idealism", a little Plato, even
Flusser. Does netart really lay in the code? Are
hackers the real net artists? Is the
visualization of the machine-code on the screen
just as useless and inferior as the dull, boring
piece of art in Plato's ideal state?
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/28-Auer
A
navigation able 3-D-Environment, walls
constructed out of letters, which one can walk
through. A sound loop, from time to time some
men mutter something about generic drugs. If you
click the walls letters appear, making sound.
Squid S o u p wants to convey "A feeling of
being somewhere". A intriguing example of the
aesthetics of the sensual.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/26-Simanowksi
Hackers
have a specific opinion about information and
work. Information wants to be free, work seeks
to be amusing. Pekka Himanen discusses this
attitude as an alternative to Max Weber's
Protestant ethic of work - work not as
estrangement but as a way to find yourself.
Himanen's argument fails to address Marx, indeed
his attempt to introduce a new social concept
lacks substantiation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/25-Simanowski
Comment by Oliver K.
In the
field of digital aesthetics, one of the
highlights of the Berlin Beta festival for
digital media in 2001 was the presentation of
the Flash-Awards accompanied by the jury's
discussion of their evaluation. dichtung-digital
presents the prize winner of section "Cartoon
& Art Clips" and speaks with two judges
about the aesthetics of Flash
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/24-Flash-Award
A sortware
firm used a collaborative writing project for
self advertisement and was not prepared to deal
with the repercussions. Instead, the firm
demanded the provider shut down the project and
proceeded to take legal action. The net
community sent protest letters and prepared for
another Etoy war. The firm tried to hack the
server, didn't succeed and finally gave in.
Oliver Gassner has the whole story.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/20-Gassner
The
history of digital literature from 1960 till
today. Ortman begins with many things and
deals with a lot of terms: Netliterature,
Hyperfiction, Computerliterature. Netliterature
consist of collaborative writings, email
literature, literary newsgroups and MUDs,
Computerliterature is hyperfiction, multimedial
and computer generated literature. Beat Suter
has some strong objections.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/09/05-Suter
Imagine
writers put their stories onto the stock market,
readers influence whether the price rises or
falls, critics speed up the development by
certain actions and comments. When the stock
market meets literature, does then literature
take over?
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/08/20-Simanowksi
Leishman's
rendition of Red Riding Hood is inundated with
hybridizations of the traditional fairy-tale
narrative: the wolf pre-existing as a picture in
her diary, as a dealer at the "flesh market", an
angel which does not stop to rescue her.
However, once she has eaten the wolf she is
pregnant with herself. Redridinghood from a
feminist perspective? From the perspective of
Flash rhetoric, in any case An impressive piece
that doesn't lack taci elements.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/08/11-Simanowski
The garage
time is over. Netart pices are included in
traditional museums and in special places of
representation. One example for the latter is
the forum for New Media [plug in]
in Basel. Roberto Simanowski talked to
Annette Schindler about the concept of curating
Netart, as well as the subjects of an Indie
culture "on hold" and the options of a micro
economy.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/08/08-Schindler