File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1998/avant-garde.9810, message 21


From: "mal avita" <malavita-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: when minds interact
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:50:12 PST


Although this is not exclusively an internet project, and the 
collaborative aspects of the project did not originate on the Web, this 
Website might be of some interest to you. It is a collective action 
originating in Philadelphia. The importance of this project lies in the 
ability of this group to challenge the status quo through direct 
interaction with the culture industry, unlike many projects confined to 
the strictures of theory alone. 

http://geocities.com/Paris/Arc/6714


>	The real promise of the internet lies in its potential to be a 
>collaborative medium. We need new kinds of works and facilities that 
>promote--and arise out of--the joint engagement of participants, in 
which 
>all are creators...
>
>"We believe that communicators have to do something nontrivial with the
>information they send and receive. And ... to interact with the 
richness of
>living information - not merely in the passive way that we have become
>accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in 
an
>ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with 
it,
>and not simply receiving by our connection to it ... We want to 
emphasize
>something beyond its one-way transfer: the increasing significance of 
the
>jointly constructive, the mutually reinforcing aspect of communication 
- the
>part that transcends 'now we both know a fact that only one of us knew
>before.' When minds interact, new ideas emerge."
>
>-J.C.R. Licklider
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