On 09/Oct/17 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:
agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a
financial pin like a dead butterfly ...
Hah, thanks for that little reminder! Let's hear it for ephemeral networked art
("you had to be there" was the best reply I ever came up with when folks used to
ask "what was that work about?"). OTOH, as a confirmed archivist, I try to
capture some of those butterflies and stick pins through them -- but that effort
is absolutely an impossible fight against entropy these days. The archive is too
large, and formats for presentation are changing so fast. I am teetering on the
edge of giving up -- right now I'd have to re-code all video works, and
completely reformat a 7500-entry blog to 'work' properly with the newest
iteration of WordPress. I refuse to go to corporate social media formats of
distribution. And the 'punishment' of maintaining "a self-maintained island of
personal research and expression in a sea of corporately hosted and filtered
content" is getting to be too much. The full-time job has wrung all the
resistent mojo outta this former-networker.
<sigh>
Hard to remember that it is *all* ephemeral. Even the highest wall, the biggest
museum, and grandest civilization...
so it goes.
jh
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