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| <nettime-ann> [ann] CARGO NEWSLETTER |
. From: [email protected] THE CARGO NEWSLETTER CARGO=A0IS A FOUNDATION FOR CREATION & DEVELOPMENT WITH MEDIA http://www.cargoweb.org THE DREAM OF CARGO CARGO investigates new forms of creation development with media, and=20 invites artists, philosophers, architects and critics to engage in this=20= search. The question =96 how can the world-with-media open itself to us=20= in meaningful experience =96 is central. To consider development as a=20 process, as an event even, that is the intention of CARGO. Today=92s digital culture has everything to do with expansion of scale = in=20 terms of space (being global and omnipresent) and time (being=20 simultaneous, available and caught in speed). We are dealing with a=20 state of exponential growth and incontrollable conception in which=20 everybody and everything is involved, accomplice to form of crime as it=20= were =96 a crime of becoming. We are dealing with a state of =91as-if-it=92, a =91drama of false=20 appearances=92. True, there will always be people =96 like media = persons,=20 artists, politicians, academics and businessmen =96 who exploit this=20 state of seemingly inexhaustible possibility of mixing for their own=20 profit, thinking that its use has been revealed to them alone,=20 invisible and unavailable to others (i.e. everyone) who are too=20 literally involved. Don=92t we find here an ultimate paradox of truth = and=20 falsehood? It is no longer relevant to distinguish between reality and fiction,=20 but rather to discover the nucleus of reality, which we can only=20 maintain as real as long as we fictionalize. Truth operates on the=20 level of false appearance rather than detailed (historical,=20 sociological etc.) knowledge. Are we wrong, then, in considering=20 digital media as a form of =91supplement=92 that is added to whatever = is,=20 that transforms what originally exists and, in=A0doing so, maintains it?=20= In other words, would we still exist or would we still be able to=20 establish our lives, if we were to disengage from what inevitably=20 transforms us?That is the central question. With CARGO we intend to set up situations that not only permit such a=20 =91distorted=92 view on everyday life, but even provoke it: situations = that=20 generate radical shifts of perspective; worlds of experience that are=20 made known by those who discover their truths in them not only by=20 helping to initiate them, but maybe even more so by playing a=20 tragicomic part in them. CARGO wants to develop a context for further investigation, where=20 concrete approaches are tested that are compatible with the=20 extraordinary features of the new media. The key word isn=92t=20 =91experiment=92 but rather =91development by creation=92; or =91context=92= but=20 rather imaginary imagination; or =91process-like approach=92 but rather = a=20 step-by-step approach, with one move after another; or =91network=92 but=20= rather circuitry between people. Exactly which requirements this type of development should meet and how=20= the approach/method eventually should look like, remains to be seen.=20 Indeed, in some ways it shares its features with new media studios,=20 workshops, labs, institutional research centres and online web=20 communities, but in others it is very different. FIRST MOVES BY CARGO - - - ) -=A0In case you feel like getting tuned in to this dream, and=20 investigate further its potential, then please don=92t hesitate to read=20= the latest CARGO publication: WEAK MEDIA, as a book and online on http://www.cargoweb.org WEAK MEDIA traces and marks of a search for new ways of using media.=20 Here we keep asking the question how we can make the most recent media=20= work for us. How can we benefit from them in terms of our own=20 development? Which capacities do we need for that? At what cost and at=20= what expense? And what do we get in return? Can media account for=20 applications outside their own field? Within the given technological=20 and overtly company-dependent infrastructure, is there any possibility=20= of criticism, experiment _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann