Bill:
> In art it may be more interesting to explore systems that do not try to
> have a single interpretation.
Well, this is just about all communication then. If you completely understood
everything I meant, then language would be a much _more_ amazing thing than the
amazing thing it is. Human language is in its nature extremely imprecise. This is
the basis of all the arguments about how language limits thought - does language
put a limitation on what you can think? I don't think so, because if it did you
would always understand exactly what I meant. ("There were times when words were
not enough" as Paul Bowles said).
> In terms of exploring new forms of communication, I certainly believe that
>
> the computer enables the creation of very different forms of communicative
> systems -- we can play with sematics about communication -- but I wouldn't
> be sending little pieces of code to Australia if this was not a new means
> of communicating. (ok yopu say old / I say new...) The potential is for
> artists to work together with
> scientists to articulate a set of potentials. Where the artist potentially
> has
I think George's point was the difference between modes and forms. The bits of
code I am getting down here from you are coming in a different form, but the mode
of communication is essentially the same - halfway between a letter and a
telephone conversation.
>
> different goals for the outcome of thier research to that of the
> scientist, often systems can be created that can be pointed in terms of
> functionality to both informational uses that might be useful to
> scientists as well as pointed in the direction that Jon spoke of earlier
> -- less "functional" uses... poetic uses -- yet both can arise out of the
> potentials of computer-oriented research.The problem solving that
> enables informational research can be very similar to the research that
> enables poetic research.
>
Despite what I said earlier, I don't think art has much to offer science in such a
direct collaborative mode. Call me old fashioned, but I think C.P. Snow had a lot
of it right - there are vast cultural differences between the two and very few
people have sufficient in-depth understanding to enable a "cultural translation"
that might permit modes of engagement that offer genuine benefits for both
disciplines.
Jon.
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