http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/ Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:25:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-129 Self-Exposure (From The Immediated Now) | Philander Norwood Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:25:30 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-129 [...] Self-Exposure section of the reading, The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality, a contrast is drawn between the reality found on television and that found on the internet. In [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-128 The Immediated Real | Chelsea Kiffin Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:26:30 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-128 [...] article The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality has a specific section of the article that was about how people in modern culture [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-127 Artist as Aggregator | David Knapp Digital Media Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:31:47 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-127 [...] The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality is part or chapter of the book networked: a (network_book) about (networked_art).  This particular chapter is by Kazys Varnelis.  I chose to summarize and respond to the section of this chapter called Artist as Aggregator for this post. [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-120 Metcalfe’s Muddle « Metaphortean Space Fri, 18 May 2012 05:59:18 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-120 [...] This is phenomenology carried out in/for globally networked culture, the seductive sedatives of immersion and haptic interfaces produce echoes and doublings that reveal the deterrance of distance, deployed to meet the demands of dromomaniacal domestics.  In Pfieffer’s work, students in Manilla recite Holt’s originally off-the-cuff observations, a variant on their usual speech training exercises.  All geared towards the tuning of their tongues to Americanized accents, aspiring to the preferences of call centers, and by proxy the clientele that prefer global connectivity collapsed into local linguistic cues, a kitsch variant of network realism, or a garbled dub of Varnelis’s Immediated Now [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-115 Jessica Hart Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:18 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-115 Scott Hug’s use of color from forecasting is interesting; however the word “pallet” means a wooden skid used with a fork lift. The word you need is “palette” which is a collection of colors.

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-113 Where infoviz aestheticizes quantified d… « Status_Quote Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:42:31 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-113 [...] http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/   LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-112 dj_enkidu Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:29:43 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-112 I don’t think making the statement “Postmodernism called high and low into question” followed by the examples of Warhol, Kruger, Sherman, Koons, etc. is a fair one. Just because what these artists did looked like “low” does not necessarily mean that they merged or blurred the distinctions between high and low. That could have been the aim of the postmodernist theorists, but not these artists. What they did was appropriation. They appropriated what people thought would belong to high culture, hijacked them to the realm of the “high”. Warhol had a different identity as a commercial artist earlier in his career and quit to become a fine artist later, in other words he chose the “high culture” over the “low”. Likewise, Jeff Koons did not praise the kitsch as it is widely misunderstood, he simply appropriates. I think the key here is talking about these artists without considering appropriation. Neither of these are craftsman, they are not image-makers as opposed to the anonymous designers/artisans they appropriate from. In these examples, low culture creates the images for commercial purposes and high culture merely decontextualizes them. Calling this practice “questioning the high vs. low” is as ridiculous as describing Duchamp’s urinate as “blurring the boundary between plumbing and sculpture”.

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-111 What is network and/or networked art? « Dialogical Balance Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:19:38 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-111 [...] culture, in terms of it being a sociocultural shift that is not limited to digital technology (Varnelis, 2008)…By employing a broader understanding of the notion of network within analysis of networked [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-104 Etivity 10 V&A « ThInking Practices Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:44:58 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-104 [...] The technology can be replaced but the memory can’t. In his essay The Immediated Now: Networked Culture and the Poetics of Reality, Kazys Varnelis questions high and low art coming from networked [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/#comment-103 On Adam Curtis’s Century of the Self. This is the first... | varnelis.net Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:28:44 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-103 [...] has become a major cultural form in network culture, something I cover in my article on the immediated now. Feed: tumblr [...]

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