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Marshal McLuhan
“What would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one’s psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties?”
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September 2008
Marshall Berman, All that is Solid Melts into AIr
“To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, ‘all that is solid melts into air’… To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. It is to be overpowered by the immense bureaucratic organizations that have the power to control and often to destroy all communities, values, lives; and yet to be undeterred in our determination to face these forces, to fight to change their world and make it our own. It is to be both revolutionary and conservative: alive to new possibilities for experience and adventure, frightened by the nihilistic depths to which so many modern adventures lead, longing to create and to hold on to something real even as everything melts.” (13-14)
“I define modernism as any attempt by modern men and women to become subjects as well as objects of modernization, to get a grip on the modern world and make themselves at home in it.” (5-6)
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Hugo Ball, “Dada Fragments”
“The Dadaist trusts more in the sincerity of events than in the wit of persons. To him persons may be had cheaply, his own person not excepted. He no longer believes in the comprehension of things from one point of departure, but is nevertheless convinced of the union of all things, of totality, to such an extent that he suffers from dissonances to the point of self-dissolution…”
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Richard Higgins’ “Fluxus; Theory and Reception”
“Fluxus was not, then, a movement; it had no stated consistent program or manifesto which the work must match, and it did not propose to move our awareness of art from point A to point B. The very name ‘fluxus,’ suggests change, being in a state of flux. The idea was that it would always reflect the most exciting aant-garde tendenies of a given time or moment—the fluxatitude—and it would always be open for new people to ‘join.’ All they had to do was to produce works which were in some way similar to what other fluxus artists were doing.”
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Lev Manovich, Language of New Media
“the most substantial consequence of the computerization of media… the computer layer and the culture layer influence each other. To use another another concept from new media, we can say that they are being composited together. The result of this composite is a new computer culture—a blend of human and compute rmeanings, of traditional ways in which human culture modeled the world and the computer’s own means of representing it.” (46)
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Elizabeth Daley
“From my perspective, probably the most important digital divide is not access to a box. It’s the ability to be empowered with the language that that box works in. Otherwise only a very few people can write with this language, and all the rest of us are reduced to being read-only.”
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Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
“At the beginning of our history, and for just about the whole of our tradition, noncommercial culture was essentially unregulated… the law was never directly concerned with the creation or spread of this form of culture, and it left this culture ‘free.’ The ordinary ways in which ordinary individuals shared and transformed their culture—telling stories, enacting scenes from plays or TV, participating in fan clubs, sharing music, making tapes—were all left alone by law.”
“This rough divide between the free and the controlled has now been erased.” (7-8)
“While there’s no doubt that your father had the right to tinker with the car engine, there’s great doubt that your child will have the right to tinker wtih the images she finds all around. The law and, increasingly, technology interfere with a freedom that technology, and curiosity, would otherwise ensure.” (Lawrence Lessig)
“The Web is the first medium that truly honors multiple forms of intelligence… The Web says if you are musical, if you are artistic, if you are visual, if you are interested in film, then there is a lot you can start to do on this medium… [However,] we are building a legal system that completely suppresses the natural tendencies of today’s digital kids…. We’re building an architecture that unleashes 60 percent of the brain and a legal system that closes down that part of the brain.” (John Seely Brown, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation)
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Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”
La modernité, c’est le fugitif, le transitoire, le contingent, la moitié de l’art, dont l’autre moitié est l’éternel et l’immuable.”
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is the one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable.”
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Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking”
“To the Greek techne means neither art nor handicraft but rather: to make something appear, within what is present, as this or that, in this way or that way.”
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