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Date Posted: 20:06:50 03/17/00 Fri
Author: Dan Machlin
Subject: Re: Laird Hunt's "The Avenue"

Dear Laird:

Loved "The Avenue" and the way that it is laid out so interactively aids its metaphor, its narrative. Suits your work. I think it would be interesting for you to expand this, really think about ways to use the medium, work perhaps with some animated texts (if that sort of thing interests you at all) -- not that "dude, it's the future," but more like your work speaks about the fragility and transitory nature of reality and perception and I think so much of the experience of this medium mirrors that, is about that, so to have the experiential elements mirror your texts would be powerful, at least I think.

"Penelope work of forgetting?" I recently started reading a book called "The User Illusion" where it states that in computer informational theory it is hypothesized that the lion's share of informational capacity it having to rid the system of the old bad information before inputting the new information. Most of the "work" of thought is in the forgetting.

Also Bill Viola's piece at the Whitney where the oz-like loudspeaker fills the room with:

the one who...
the one who...
the one who...
the one who...

endlessly cycling ending each line of the mantra with a different verb each time mirrored itself by a spinning mirror - shifting light and perspective around the room of stationary people observing this shifting point of view, readers in some respect

"We live in an age of errata, of misinformation, of disinformation, of hoax;"

Is this true or not true, seems to me the question.
Working on the internet, it seem like there is a pressure towards an economy of increasing sincerity, frankness, as the customer demands the facts delivered to him/her in personalized ways. So the rhetoric is an experience framed with increasing exactitude on what the customer not only says, but does, wants in all the situations of his/her life. So it's almost as if a current of information is existing beneath an old layer of disinformation eroding it. Beneath the supposed clarity of information are the hard facts of economic injustice, technological imbalances, increasing willingness to look the other way if it benefits the economy, co-opting the energy and originality of the younger generation into the corporate machine. But narrative is surely the guiding principle of the dream of clarity that floats the information bubble, filled with mysterious air. The metaphors of software are the simplest or the most fundamental, "soft" + "ware" "micro" + "soft" poetry is programming fitted with a friendly masque - the programmers, the passionate ones, have such a romanticism about their code and the beauty of it, the way it can be understood and built upon by future coders, that makes one wonder if the efficacy of poetry to the classic age where it was the primary communicator of civilization has now shifted to the coder, who is fast becoming the primary visionary and bearer of the fabric of civilization. - Dan -

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