newMedia(now&&then)
Saturday, February 19, 2005
i just recv'd the following msg from sim winter:
"Hi I will close the list now.
I don´t know if www.soy.de will stay online in the next months.
But i would be happy to meet you again someday somewhere.
cu.
sim"
which provoked me to rtn to www.soy.de + catch glimpses of it before it may fade into 404...
while @ www.soy.de i read the following post On Board:
"You know the man
who fights his way through the jungle
hacking a trial with his knife
while behind him the green
is closing tight with every step he makes.
The path has to be used to stay open!"
which combined in my mind w/the CrimethInc. Special Report: Working "Within the System" that i was reading just before recv'ing the msg from sim winter about the uncertain future of www.soy.de. these txts intertangle w/the ongoing conversation on -empyre- this month about netArt, webArt, newMedia, artware, etc in rltn to archiving.
i wonder what is bringing sim winter to the end of hacking open the path ahead of + in soy.de systems + what will become of the archiv directory that is positioned as the src of www.soy.de + all other directories of www.soy.de if or when the site goess offLine in next months few months...(?)
extracting + downloading data from sites in order to create personally maintained mirrors or decentralized backups could be positioned as a community based response to the instability of networked [projects/processes]. www.soy.de is a wonderfully participatory if not (A)narchistic [distribution.system/discourseEngine] that enables those activated by the sys to engage in the ongoing creation + modification of the sys. www.soy.de is also a project of sim winter + as such is a netArt [project/process] in + of itself.
"Remember, every day we spend "using the system" is another day longer we'll have to wait until new networks and better ways of life replace the old ones."
data.src:
title: CrimethInc. Special Report: Working "Within the System"
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uri: http://www.crimethinc.com/library/english/system.html
the above CrimethInc quote fails to account for granularity of systems that are {brambley|vasty} tingleTangles + attempts to simplify nonreductive situations into easily radicalized options. the networks we operate in now are deeply embedded in 01 another + recursive. sim winter frames www.soy.de's functionality as "...bridging the gap between 0 and 1". we can map rltns + define positions but binaries such as mainstream + underground are untenable solutions for the paths we are {on|off} as artists in these networks.
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