Re: nettime Landscape Painting of the Information Age
i remember in simon schama's book 'landscape and memory' his part about the word landscape and its dutch root 'landschapen' excuse my spelling, and that is akin to the german landschaft - land= land(eng) schaffen=produce/make(eng). it was linked by schama to the root of landscape painting in mapping and the desire of aristocracy to picture their possessed land (in close-up). with this idea of landscape as a sort of mapping system, having little to do with raw nature or wilderness, but being a sort of imperial cultural product, there are many works online relating to mapping, one involving wolfgang, currently off-line and hopefully back on - humbot, produced some years back. a link between landscape vis a vis land art and telecommunication art could also be made, and there are works with varying amounts of success that approach networks as landscapes, geo-political, mapping, even gardens. philip pocock # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
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Fwd: nettime High tech trash
its been 6 years since i worked with internet media in uganda - http://www.aporee.org/equator at the time 1997 it took us only 10 minutes for an 18-year-old net-head in kampala to set us up with an account and a pretty speedy 28kb connection with few drops. in germany at that time you had to wait weeks to get an account sometimes. did you meet charles musisi? he was having students type the'new vision' national news onto the net then to pay for a hut a few pcs and some oreilly linux textbooks. in 1997 there was in my view more understanding intrinsic understanding of net culture in uganda among the students i met than among students i worked with in germany! and its not a surprise for many reasons. if you havent contacted charles musis i would recommend it. i met him through gopher in 1995 when he was canvasing worldwide universities for 2400 baud modems to be donated to uganda. he is a pioneer net person who made our site possible. viva uganda! Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Steve Cisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Wed, 12. Feb. 2003 14:35:05 Europe/Berlin An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: nettime High tech trash Antwort an: Steve Cisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:48 AM, Announcer wrote: From: Ryan Griffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: high tech trash and developing nations http://cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/environ/hitech_trash/ a story from last October by the CBC on the transplantation of Computer waste to poor countries, and the environmental/human effects. I just returned from three weeks in Uganda where I was assessing a high tech project involving nicely outfitted computer labs with new gear, wireless Internet connection, etc. in teacher training colleges around ... philip pocock gabelsbergerstr. 1 d-76135 karlsruhe germany mobile/sms +49 1707 369 870 tel +49 721 845 715 fax +49 721 830 2714 the more we share, the more we have. - l.nimoy # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
