Moving forward there is plenty of room for exploration of digital culture. Artists should take the opportunity to be on the fore of asking questions that cut deep into the mechanisms of our contemporary world. What do digital cave drawings look like? What comes after digital? Can networks and virtual communication be viewed as material? What are the politics of internet-based art? The list will not end anytime soon. These questions may use contemporary words but their roots are very similar to the questions that were asked by innovative artists like Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman. Taking cues from their pursuits would serve all artists well.
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We met a few weeks later at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland where she talked about night herons and I talked about where to stand for good lighting.
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…Can a princess dog understand boards of canada?…
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…delinquent who behaves himself yet ruins the earth with every transcontinental plane flight…
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…Bouncey hair big perm blonde recorded for instagram view youtube…
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…the trope lifts the avant garde and asks nothing in return…
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…I can’t help feeling lukewarm sometimes…
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…Missed it blew it and only can watch the replays of someone else’s memories…
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…At least it was cold up there, for a while longer…
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…Mama gone but clinging all of them little paws not yet grubby outside generic admin supervisor corner office 13th floor marked 12…
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…They’re wrinkled with manhole cover designs and oil-based residue black tar tire rubber gunk gets in your lungs and wreaks havoc…
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…Say something good in real life….
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…He’s the office loud talker rant on about his used van conversion anti consumerist holy holy cold west wind…
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…I don’t think it’s possible to know what time does before it’s done and dusted crow eating rear mirror driver cross-country mover…
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…The wild cats are screaming again kinda sounds like a child…
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…Hey city lights pollute the low cloud cover why can’t you?…
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…Get used to here you’re movin in movin up downtown not around much anymore.
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