MU Talk

Christa Forster 20:49 on 06/09/2014 Permalink Reply
Tags: Houston ( 4 ), Mixed Berry Shake ( 8 ), Practice Based Research ( 4 ), what's on [My] mind? ( 12 )   

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  Ciara 00:06 on 07/09/2014 Permalink | Reply

  Christa, this sounds fantastic! Good luck and have fun working with the designer:-)

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    Vanessa Blaylock 05:52 on 07/09/2014 Permalink | Reply

    Oooh, this does sound fantastic! You’ll be staying for the discussion after?

    The Book will be a glorious tactile experience. I’m also interested in this new “World Wide Web” thing I’ve been hearing about. I wonder if they’d give you files so you could put some or all of your book online?

    I’ve been wondering a lot (without much progress) about how to create more immersive experiences in cyberspace: Books, Narrative Storytelling, yes, Cornel Boxes, etc.

    Cyberspace has more serendipity than just about anything in human history. Its unboundedness lets you create your own adventures, but it makes it hard to craft anything for others to experience. When you have a Book be it a book with words or images, on paper or eReader, it seems to be an agreement between artist and reader to spend some chunk of time, large or small, focused on a specific story or experience, narrative or game.

    See what a nice job I did of making your project about meeee! haha. Anyway, have a great time, I’m sure we’re all excited to see what results! 😀

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  Vanessa Blaylock 06:26 on 07/09/2014 Permalink | Reply

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  Christa Forster 08:01 on 07/09/2014 Permalink | Reply

  LOL. So true, Ikea!! Funny.

  Van, you say “Cyberspace has more serendipity than just about anything in human history. Its unboundedness lets you create your own adventures, but it makes it hard to craft anything for others to experience.”

  William Blake, also speaking of boundaries, says “The want of a determinate and bounding form evidences the want of idea in the artist’s mind.” I wonder how Blake’s idea speaks to the artists crafting in cyberspace?

  What intrigues me about performance is that while it does have a “determinate and bounding form,” that form is temporal, by nature diffused in the audience’s and the creator’s imaginations.

  Blake championed what he called Eternal Truth, which was visible through these determinate and bounding forms. Most of his contemporaries’ work appealed to the senses rather than the intellect, resulting in mere “blurs and blots,” as he said.

  I think your active searching to figure out how to “bound” something in the “unboundedness” of cyberspace, Van, is awesome, an odyssey toward what Blake would have called an Eternal Truth. The irony is that the serendipity that you mention is transitory, but it’s within this bizarre space where supposedly nothing every disappears (the www). How does this condition affect the imagination? individual and cultural?

  IDK!!

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    Ciara 22:17 on 08/09/2014 Permalink | Reply