File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2000/avant-garde.0002, message 8


From: ma-AT-panix.com
Subject: Re: Uses of chat and such
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:31:52 -0500 (EST)


Heiko wrote:

> 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...


-m


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