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California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Created: March 21, 2002
Latest Update: March 21, 2002
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

after Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

Laptop is the window - Desktop is the landscape - Cursor is the horizon

Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, March 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

On Thursday, March 21, 2002, Carlo Zanni and jeanne exchanged this e-mail:

Carlo: Here is my proposal for the dialogue:
Laptop is the window, Desktop is the landscape, Cursor is the horizon.
we can speak about "the creation of new metaphors and new expression forms" as you told me.

jeanne: Carlo, that sounds great!
I will put up some more material on society as metaphor, and find the links to our earlier work on that.

Carlo: we can put on line 2 img of canvases, several dtp ICOn_portraits and a link to a beta version of a project named: betaCOOKIES, a new form of portrait taken through cookies.

What do you think about it?

jeanne: I'm fascinated. Can't wait to see it.
Do you want to upload this for me to put on our site, or do you and Valentina want us to just link to your Zanniorg site?

Carlo: how will the dialogue be done ? by e-mail

jeanne: In order to preserve the project for others to access in the future, I prefer to upload the dialogue to the site, as it comes in by e-mail. I can just cut and paste the e-mail so that it doesn't have to be keyed in again. A sample page of dialogue with links back and forth can be found at http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/trust01.htm . (Almost all underlining on our site represents a hot link.) I'm trying to imitate a lesson we learned from TV. Given the intensity of life today, reading and looking are done in whatever discretionary time can be grabbed at odd moments. When the whole dialogue is up and adequately linked, and the reader learns to trust its always being there, then the material has the best hope of dissemination.

Carlo: ok, keep in touch and please, let me know when you think to do it because i have to advise Valentina.

jeanne: I have one small problem. Techs are coming today to install a new computer, and I'll have to change all this over to the new computer. That may take me out for a couple of days. Other than that, I can upload whenever you like.

jeanne: To give you an idea, I'll upload this to the site.

More soon . . .

Related References:

• Newnewportrait: state of mind. (bootlegged version) Essay by Alexandra Reill, director of Kanonmedia.com (ICOn_portraits and paintings) on Carlo Zanni's work. Link added March 21, 2002.

  • This is where article was bootlegged from.

• Low Level All-Stars—Linus Walleij/TRIAD Not directly related to Carlo's work. I just got side-tracked. jeanne. Link added March 21, 2002.

  "[To coincide with the exhibition "Kingdom of Piracy" (http://kop.adac.com.tw/) RSG and BEIGE have entered into a head to head, 8-bit computing battle in search of what we call "the low level all-stars." First round goes to Cory Arcangel of BEIGE who contacted Linus Walleij of the legendary Swedish demo crew Triad (http://www.triad.c64.org/). In the following interview Linus describes his craft: the art of the cracker "intro." Part demo, part graffiti, intros are the animations that appear at the start-up of a cracked video game. Designed to showcase the cracker's talent, these mini projects also shed an interesting light on computer art...and where it came from.] "

• The Artist-As-Knowledge Producer A Conversation between Jonah Peretti, Director of R&D and Post-Graduate Studies at Eyebeam, and design engineer and technoartist Natalie Jeremijenko technoartist Natalie Jeremijenko. Got side-tracked again. jeanne. Link added March 21, 2002.