----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Dear all Refiguring the Future: ~Anneli wrote: “Hearing about what Zach Blas and Micha Cardenas have proposed is the type of network I am contemplating. Of course, as Renate brought up, democratizing Internet platforms, or maintaining community run platforms requires an enormous amount of labor and energy. Once we leave the reliance on corporations, there is a price to pay. Perhaps the answer has to do with a move away from for-profit systems and frameworks... At moments like this I think it’s important to visualize the reality of the Internet: many cables connected underground and underwater, our files stored on many computers all over the world.”
You have caught me at home today working in my studio and trying to organize next month’s discussion on –empyre- and an ode to three artists we lost these past few weeks: Grace Quantanilla (MX), Barbara Hammer (US), and Carolee Schneemann (US). I do have to qualify that both Zach and Micha never did follow through with Q or perhaps maybe one or two issues as I recall. The work behind this forum, the listserv, is inordinately labor intensive. It is so different than the blog in that participants need to be nurtured, enticed, and allowed to chime in at their own pace. That is often in resistance to real life/work demands that these days are incredibly stressful for most of us who are artists, curators, technicians, writers and so much more. There are also back-channel tinkerings that keep our listserv going. There are times that it is populated with many posts and other times that the pace is slow or non-existent. The corporate response whether the web, or Facebook, or Instagram certainly does not nurture individuals at all, or perhaps does that through algorithms. I am not sure if you saw this this interview of Tim Berners-Lee who was lamenting the state or his internet in 2019. https://livestream.com/internetsociety/web30/videos/188647858 Looking forward to hearing from you more about your work in this area. Can you tell us about your own design/coding work? Best. Renate Renate Ferro Visiting Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Art Tjaden Hall 306 [email protected] On 3/20/19, 12:44 PM, "[email protected] on behalf of Anneli Anne Goeller" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- _______________________________________________ empyre forum [email protected] http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
