Re: posting at duchimp

Tom Coffin (tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:52:25 -0500

The 'virtual' material is actually very ancient.
It is light!

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At 08:26 AM 1/24/99 -0800, Avi Rosen wrote:
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>>i cannot bear the tactile nature of 250 gram hand laid rag paper
>>my fingers caressing it and thinking of paris rag pickers
>>i cannot confront the hundreds of hours of planning and drawing and
>>etching
>>the grinding of stone on stone - the vent of fumes
>>i loath the idea of rushes and revisions on plates
>>trying to dissuade the "artist" away from labor intensive revisions
>>the shear effort of it
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>this is very dificult situation for a generation educated in a
>traditional material culture, to switch from a
>action in material world to a virtual one. its like worshiping a 'God'
>with no aqppirance instad of a material idol.
>Avi.
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>Avi Rosen, Media Artist
>EE Faculty,
>Technion I.I.T.
>Israel 32000.
>Tel: +972-4-8294753 (work)
>Tel: +972-4-8218081 (home)
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>E-mail: avi@savyon.technion.ac.il
>http://www.technion.ac.il/~ravi/
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