| Arthur Clay on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:48:09 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Weizenbaum at the Digital Art Weeks 07 |
Dear John Hopkins Thank you for your comments. However, I am not sure the passage from me you selected to quote jives with the reasoning you present in your comment. It just simply states that inter disciplinary work is no longer a concept but a praxis in art and that teams form with diverse knowledge. During his Key Note speech for the Digital Art Weeks 07 Conference, Weizenbaum simply said that the decision to go ahead with a project remains yours to say yes or no to. If one finds the project not moral sound, then one should find the kraft to say no. In doing so other paths will open up. Of course this is naive as it is almost impossible to exclude the military from the agenda for computer science. Through his experiences at MIT, Weizenbaum admitted it himself. The point in reference to your comment is that there are viable alternatives to "proof of concept" for computer science research. Art application is certainly one. Also, because the Digital Art Weeks is part of the activities if the ETH Zurich, - a major research institute- we are not "brought the digital device", we invent it. Works like my "GoingPublik" or "China Gates" are bottom up projects with no commercial hardware or software. Here. empirical research is imbedded in art applications. As an institute, we are of course responsible for the technology and as a festival venue for electronic art we are as well responsible for the aesthetics results brought about by the possibilities the technology brings. The proof here in terms of "human encounter" can be easily judged by taking a quick retro blick at the festival: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10329415@N06/ http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=digitalartweeks greetings, Art Clay, Artistic Director Digital Art Weeks Zurich Arthur Clay, Project Coordinator ETH Zuerich Institut fuer Computersysteme Clausiusstrasse 59, ETH-Zentrum, RZ H 22. 8092 Zuerich Tel: 044 632 84 14 E-Mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday from 8 am to 4 pm Wednesday from 8 am to 12 noon http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch http://homepage.bluewin.ch/artclay/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]