Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Shall These Bits Live? A Trip Report from New Media and Social Memory (Berkeley, January 18, 2007)

Link: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Shall These Bits Live? A Trip Report from New Media and Social Memory (Berkeley, January 18, 2007).

(((This was an important meeting. I suspect it's going to have major consequences, not just for "electronic art" and "new media art," for for formerly stable forms of technically mediated art such as video and film. "Vernacular video" means that video is coming apart at the seams, while "film," in the sense of plastic strips with chemicals on top of them, is as doomed as the Edison wax cylinder. We're gonna have to learn to think of these means of expression in a new and more sophisticated way. Rinehart's scheme of "dance notation" as coded in machine-agnostic XML is about as good an idea as we have to date. I'd go so far as to declare that if you're NOT thinking of your art in machine-agnostic terms, you are not an artist and shouldn't declare yourself to be one: you are a hobbyist and a slave of the hardware.)))