It was an e-mail interview. I was supposed to do the interview at the bruch
at Submerge on the Tuesday after this years DEMF, but Jeff had forgotten
about a dentist appointment so we ended up doing it by e-mail. I had a lot
more questions than that, but he picked out those ten. The interview up at
the Technotourist site is nothing more than the q&a of that interview.
John
From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313 Detroit <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: [313] The Tao of Mills
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:08:48 +1100
I am almost 99 percent certain this was an e-mail (written) interview. I
think Jeff maybe writes a little more formally than he speaks. This often
happens with e-mail interviews, people are more aware of the written word
and approach the interview differently. I have to say Jeff is extremely
generous with his e-mail interviews, a lot of artists write one sentence
answers, whereas he puts time and thought into them! But I don't think
people realise that while he is intellectually curious he has a good sense
of humour which is part of that optimism. I think that obliqueness you
refer
to is a product of his relativistic outlook which is the thing that most
fascinates me about Mills - it takes a lot of mental discipline to be
relativistic about things!
This was a great read!
Incidentally I expect/anticipate HYPER detailed reports of the Agents Of
Change party on this list!! :)
>I'm going to completely disregard the thread that unrolled from Jeff
>Mills into particle physics...
>
>The thing that mosts fascinates me about Jeff Mills is the way that he
>speaks is a little fuzzy meaningwise. It makes me want to put on my
>green eyeshade and copy edit for him. You KNOW what's he's getting at
>but he uses words that are a little off from the meaning he intends.
>It's a little like he's translating from another language.
>
>Parts I loved:
>
>His explanation of the title "Every Dog Has His Day"
>where he breaks it down literally. I guess it is an English Language
>colloquialism, but it's not that obscure. It is a good avoidance
>of stating directly what HE meant by it.
>
>"Often, I can feel and see the things that words can not say and numbers
>cannot calculate."
>
>"Perceiving the unknown in hopes to survive the unexpected."
>
>"...as our society advances, we will discover more frequently and
>dealing with those discoveries must be met with a better understanding
>of our own limitations."
>
>The usage of discover is intriguing -- it could mean 'we will discover
new
>things' but it's more general -- it's using 'discover' as an active
>verb with no object. This act of discovery is generic and open form. If
>you know what you're looking for you're not really discovering anything
>new.
>
>" ... [time] is the very thing we do not understand but, yet we try to
>make sense of it and from guessing what it is, most of us settle and
build
>our lives. Chasing the meaning of time is resonably beyond us so, we can
do
>nothing but wait. It is this waiting that is fascinating."
>
>Whoa. That's a tail-swallowing snake of a paragraph if ever ther was.
>
>
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