pmc-aesthetics-pres

presentation files about permacomputing aesthetics
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Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date:   Fri,  9 Dec 2022 13:41:34 +0100

refactoring

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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html @@ -549,8 +549,6 @@ class: inverted, middle, center ??? - when Jamaican studios started to experiment in the 70s with obsolete and abandonned US audio equipment like spring reverbs, they were not nostalgic about 60s surf music, instead it became a core component of new musical genre: dub music. - pmc sees computational devices like as many different instruments waiting to be turned upside down and rediscovered -- pmc sees the end of a computer product lifecycle as a moment of celebration, a moment where its socioeconomic context can be reclaimed as opposed to be put behind a glass and condemned to run the same old code forever -- so if pmc is nostalgic then it relates more to reflective nostalgia - but most importantly it belongs to a wider range of post-digital aesthetics --- @@ -558,12 +556,10 @@ class: inverted, middle, center # BEYOND POSTURES OF NOVELTY ??? -- the 90s idea of "digitality" (as advocated by nicholas negroponte etc) is exemplary of all the problems presented so far (maximalism, virtualism, narrow cultural basis, neophilia) -- post-digital aesthetics however bring to light the end of such new media cult -- more specifically the combinatorial and generatively conflictual potential of combining new + old media POV -- pmc aesthetics thefore defies the "nostalgia explanation" -- USEFUL REF FOR PAPER: Florian Cramer has some examples of e.g. young artists that like media older than themselves -- pmc tries to exist outside of hype cycles and favour an ongoing practice itself moving in an ever changing landscape of new and old media and tech +- the 90s meme of "digitality" is exemplary of all the problems presented so far (maximalism, virtualism, narrow cultural basis, neophilia) +- however the more recent concept of post-digital aesthetics brings to light the end of such new media cult +- more specifically in its articulation of the potential to combine new + old media POV +- as a result permacomputing tries to exist outside of hype cycles and favour an ongoing practice itself moving in an ever changing landscape of new and old media and tech --- class: inverted, middle, center