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posted by kpnil at 10:58 AM
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
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OH these links are finally working... it was about time!
1:48 PM
Sorry about that anonymous. I had to figure out the code for this page.
1:35 AM
The site would be okay if you updated a little more often.
1:40 PM
What exactly does "enable java in my browser" mean?
11:35 AM
In order to check if your Java is enabled go to preferences and then Java and it must be on because you were able to get to this window.
11:44 AM
I finally figured it out, but it took a while. I had to actually read the instructions, and how many people do that, KURT>
I assume you will switch it back so the comments tab will actually work? I will actually be able to go to the blogs from the tab that says I can?
7:28 AM
I'm not sure what you meant by that. The Comments tab on the home page is for instructions at the moment. I may switch it to critique the site but there are always new people coming in. It is difficult to figure out a structure that everyone understands.
8:29 AM
Ok, now I understand, and that will be great.
thanks
10:45 AM
thomas, kurt doesn't have as much free time as you do! =)
1:18 PM
hi kurt,
i am having trouble reconciling the art and politics. this is not meant as a criticism - just feedback on my own personal reaction to this website. i am sitting here trying to elaborate on what i mean by that statement, but i'm having trouble articulating it. so here it is. :-) ilya
9:13 PM
It seems to me that, knowing Kurt, art and politics are not separable. Perhaps sometimes the art seems to get lost in the politics on the site--but each of his illustrations for the articles are not just photographs, but graphic representations of how he sees the articles. Right now, it seems that the politics have the forefront, though, and the art is more hidden. Not the graphics, the art and artists.
7:50 AM
After all, to use the old feminist war cry, the personal is always political. Separating them is not possible, but it can be a river in Egypt, or a matter of style.Or sometimes a good rest.
7:58 AM
Good point Ilya. The website is in the process of exploring and my artwork is also becoming more exploratory. Politics is very present in my work and I am in the process of reconciling where and how they interface for me. It is damn good to hear from you friend.
8:05 AM
there is a new article in Science magazine about the possibility of constructing an 'invisibility cloak' using tiny wires and other things I don't understand to refract light and bend it around objects so they are not seen. It seems to me that much of Kurt's art is like this, except the object does not disappear, it becomes translucent, not transparent, and the refraction is back toward the viewer who must then become the artist, or at least the artist's collaborator, inextricably intertwining the personal and the political of both the artist and the viewer. And not just Kurt's art, but several of the others who are represented on this site, artists, writers, bloggers (because of course I consider my blogging to be art and worthy of publication or I wouldn't push the return key to publish it. Hubris, I know.)
8:13 AM
Through this milieu of blogging and the internet in general, the personal is becoming more and more political,and vice versa. Individual voices can be heard in ways they haven't been heard since the days when pamphlets promoted revolution. Blogging is the new pamphleteering where the political cannot hide from the personal.
What happens in South America from the starving kids on the streets to the elections to the gated communities of the rich (all of which are not just in South America, they are here in the North, too. We just don't see them because of the political refraction of light) affects us personally and we cannot be separated from it.
What does that have to do with art and this site? It will be interesting to see how or if it affects Kurt's art, or someone else's art, or writing.
I think I have had too much coffee this morning and need to shut up.
8:24 AM
Kurt, I wonder if there are too many blogs on your site. If I want to stay current in the discussions I have to navigate to how many? Five? Six? and there are usually interesting comments and discussions on each one.Why not just have one space where I could comment, or read others comments, on what comes up on your site. If I'm not interested in one subject I can scroll down to another, but the conversations are pretty free ranging on any one site, so why not just have one? I don't really have time to keep up with all of them even when I am interested.
6:46 AM
I agree with Sherrill, it's not easy to keep track of all the discussions. Maybe two blogs - one for the unseen eye and other for the rest of the website - would make it easier.
7:40 AM
I understand that there are a lot of blogs on this site and keeping track of them can be difficult. The main ones are Brainblog, wrinkly brain news blog and the Unseen Eye blog. The others are so I can track individual resposes to articles and artists. We have redesigned so you do not have to navigate to these blogs, they just appear for the articles and artists being discussed. I am trying to take the navigation part out of your hands but I need the separate blogs to keep track of the content. I am working on a simpler way of doing this at the moment. There is a logistics problem when you are trying to keep track of several topics at once. Thank you for your comments and i will try to narrow it down. The new pop-up window for the blogs has helped considerably so keep those comments coming. We feed each other.
7:57 PM
I have now fixed the pop-up for Brain Blog and Wrinkly Brain News Blog to show the entire blog instead of taking you to an individual post.
8:35 PM
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