From: "d tect" <datatect@gmail.com>Subject: new nature or narrative for a narrative of nature

Date: July 27, 2008 6:49:27 AM CDT (CA)To: janet.murray@lcc.gatech.eduCc: pocock@zkm.de

hello prof. murray

i enjoyed the context you were involved in - contextual media - as i was building a user-generated hypernarrative work for the documenta (which requires some restoration to allowlogin where the timing and tagging (very early) of remote user content to the rhizome of'broken stories' (life itself it seems) currently at:

http://www.aporee.org/equator

i made this early msql and php1.0 work in uganda africa, live uploads out of africa, and 30%user uploads from all over

my public lecture introduced by catherine david at documenta ( a first for hypermedia in amajor art context) is at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2634011385918088859 . itwas streamed live in 1997. the text concerning new narratives, database cinema and digitalaesthetics is at http://www.philip.battlix.com/datatecture/Otherlands01.html

in 2001 i built wth students at Hochschule Pforzheim design school what eventually wasbusiness modelled into youtube by the company's first uploaded in 2005, jawed karem. hedescribes our use of flash, python and php, and how he had to wait for that in 2005. webasically put those techs together for a user-generated mashup 3 years earlier, as a narrativeart work at:

http://unmovie.zkm.de

a work for which i wrote a short text - the subject line of this mail - about a. v. humbot, who hadhis own metamappings and pasigraphy, etc. this work was feature in the net_condition showand went on to moma paris and many stops. it uses self-organizing mapping, user sessioninnovations and rich media in 1999. it's up at

http://www.humbot.org

and the earliest work i did, a sort of precursor to the blog, video blog actually, in 1995, i did inthe circumstances of the canadian remote wilderness. this cyberroadmovie is at:

http://roundearth.zkm.de/arcticcircle

my bio at:

http://datatecture.blogspot.com

i am currently running an artist lab at zkm for some years and have been prof in pforzheim.however the waning interest in truly translocal media and the incredible lackof differentiation between databanks and databases, read-only-memory and interaction, esp.high profile writers like manovich and so much new media and narrative forms that are in myview not sustainable and are digital updates for drive-ins, what i call drive-in digital media, isholding back the greening of the media art landscape, and this due to a generalmisunderstanding that computers know language, and computer languages, ie python, php,bash, etc. know scripting, and are not really technical in an industrial age manner. such metastructure for video and sound and behavior et al are only time consuming and require studyand thought, something that the consumer paradigm that pervades even advanced mediaeducation avoids in favor of short circuit purely local works rather than those designed for atranslocal system allowing local access to be plugged in...

there is little knowledge of what i have been researching in the main academic circle, primarybecause that is a circle and not like new media an open network.

i wish you well and again i remember in 1997 or thereabouts enjoying things you wrote or wereconnected too, i.e. sociomedia. i own that book and contextual media. why have thingsreally seemed to run off the rails that these two textbooks attempted to lay out for youngminds?

cheers philip pocock

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