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3 May, 2008

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korporat fascist gullibloon zpektakle.

What in the weird? How has it come to this? Are we now witnessing merely an experimentation of art? Or could this be the future of our inadequate language? It wasn’t always inadequate, I suppose, we will say in the years to come. Books! those magical things gave us our intellectual sustenance. Until the time of the computer, Where whole novels could be put into a melting pot and boiled down to a kind of computer code. Which completely eliminated the poetic beauty of language and replaced it with a more capitalist, clear, concise and efficient approach to sharing information.

This highly conceptual artistic approach to the potential future of language is boiled down to one term “code work”  © McKenzie Wark. 

Wark introduces us to this interesting new world through the work of various artists like,

 Alan Sondheim who uses IRC, as a means of composition,

IRC log started Sat Oct 20 23:01
*** Value of LOG set to ON
*** Nikuko ([qIbgrP30O@panix3.panix.com) has joined channel #nikuko
*** Users on #nikuko: @Nikuko
*** #nikuko 1003633320
* Nikuko want to be alone this evening of white dust and stars
* Nikuko dissolvers in your spores
* Nikuko writers her shattered skin in your stars
<Nikuko> Ah, I will paint in nail-head line! in swallow line!
<Nikuko> Ah, I will write in glowworm line, in swollen female line!
* Nikuko painters her torn skin into many kanji
* Nikuko turn towards gnarled knot line, toward whirlpool line
<Nikuko> Her dark hair outlinered in white spore her bamboo knot line
<Nikuko> Her name in grackle line, her death in beauty white crane line
* Nikuko brush in loving spores in white beauty anthrax
* Nikuko writers in sublimation line, towards line of rising-up
* Nikuko in white beauty anthrax in white beauty anthrax mouth

I’m very fond of this new form of poetry, it has a dark, abstract nature. Blending technology and Japanese tradition in the same way the country itself does. Here we feel the teenage Japanese attitude of technology and nature as one in the same. A pure naturalness within a highly technoligised existence.

another artist Stéphan Barron asks others to volunteer texts. In “Com_post Concepts” The sender receives her or his own text back at weekly intervals, in an increasingly noisy and unintelligible state. 

This entire article has been introduced into this work of art. I am interested to see what will be made of it.

Give it a go at www.com-post.org

Until next week……………………………………..

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