whispering futures LO29735

From: Don Dwiggins (d.l.dwiggins@computer.org)
Date: 12/27/02


Replying to LO29661 --

Andrew writes in LO29661:
> Don, I think you are perhaps in your 'conducting a dialogue with the
> future' making a very pro--found;-) statement. That would require some
> profound capacity of imagination, would it knot ...?

Or the ability to "cast a wide net" in thinking about self as located in
space(s) and time. (Or is that perhaps just imagination? Hmmm, knotty
thoughts... 8^)

> If I said that, the future has already begun the whispering...would that
> surpise you Don? For example, artists in the seventies were sending out
> post cards among small networks to which each in turn;-) would amend
> creatively, new art emerges, all is changed nothing diminished...(Flexus,
> On Kawara, Gilbert & George)...If you take a deeper look at impressionism
> as a response to technological changes you will see that, generally, in
> 'presencing' paradigm shifts, this place is, about, one hundred and
> twenty years short of complementary fine art learning.

Which to me is a major reason that you're so valuable to this list, as an
umlomo to the rich learnings of fine art(s).

Love,

-- 

Don Dwiggins d.l.dwiggins@computer.org Let us have one vision for the future - to make the next millenium the Proper Era of Homo Sapiens - those creatures who have wisdom (not technology) in common. Technology is but merely one of the fruits of wisdom. -- At de Lange, 1999

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