Having seen your work, there is a recognisable voice in for instance
"light from the machine", as well as "isolationbreedscontempt".
There was gravitas, some presence that was very strong. A broadness
and groundedness. Can you relate to this?
"Isolationbreedscontempt",
is quite scathing, a strong presence, to unsettle others; the frames
could be difficult to use on some computers, the music was unsettling,
so you wonder what's going on here. I am in control in this piece.
Being in
control?
You have to
click, you have to get through, every now and than I am gonna jump
up and you find pop-ups and strange coded signs. I know what I mean,
but are you gonna spend time to work it all out?
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In
several of your pieces, there was an invitation to stay. I
felt the question that came over to me was "are you gonna
stay"?
That's
about the click click click, the sound-bites of the art. It's
me kicking back and my traditional roots showing themselves,
it is the click click click, play play play - what can you
do with it? I say NO - you stop and look at it. See if you
can see what I am saying; see if you can listen and if you
are not interested just bugger of. But don't just click, click,
click. When you work hard enough, you find the question. The
clues, the codes, the idea of words within words, it comes
back to messages within text, and secret messages. Secrets
have always interested me and subscripts, that's the thing
with the internet, this idea of the code, that's why I am
partly not getting into html because you have this code in
the background and I am not sure what it is saying and what
secrets are being given away. I want to be in charge of what
secrets are being given away. This is a theme that goes through
everything, can you find me, can you put energy into me....
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Isolation
Breeds Contempt
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Your pieces
are emotionally demanding. How many people are there looking at
net art who are prepared to be emotionally provoked, something real
to happen to them?
I am making
the work for one other person. My view is that it does not matter
if x people move on, it's that one person that stops - that one
other person that's on my mind. It's bizarre in a global medium,
but there it is. In the end it's one person in front of their machine,
they are likely to have the machine in their home, I am coming into
their homes and I am talking to this one person.
That's quiet
seductive I think.
Its emotional
interaction, I demand a lot but I also give a lot, I will be faithful.
There was a really interesting post on rhizome last night, basically
it was talking about emotional engagement and why critics and institutions
did not go there. That emotional and personal based art wasn't reviewed
and it was not seen and it was not hyped and it was not backed,
and he was saying: is it emotional laziness? Is it just they don't
want to get involved in this arena, that they don't want to get
down to that level? I am gonna print it out and stick it on my wall,
cause I quite like that.
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