File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2000/avant-garde.0002, message 17


Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:00:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106-AT-ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: Uses of chat and such




On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Bill Spornitz wrote:

> For me, chat is always about flow...
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> At 1:31 PM -0000 2/9/00, ma-AT-panix.com wrote:
> >Heiko wrote:
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> >> Then, "chat" is a two way medium. Like in Brechts radio theory (or Rudolf
> >> Arnheim, who, maybe, inspired Brecht, Brecht was a thief...). What could
> >> an artist do with such a medium ? The medium is the message in itself.
> >
> >Well, I don't know.  If we are talking about putative uses (while Erben wants
> >to know about actual uses), then one could say that "chat" is a medium for
> >"talking" in real time, and therefore could serve as a performance medium.
> >Also, I could imagine people writing special "chat" software that was geared
> >towards various artistic experiments -- incorporating chance, insertions of
> >extraneous texts, "exquisite corpse" facilities, etc.  No, I don't think it's
> >an impossible medium...
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> >-m
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