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Saturday, July 26, 2003

 

But What's It *For*?

Feeling rather disheartened by John C. Dvorak's July 21 article for PC Magazine, Turing Test Dead End. As of this posting, the article'd received 74 replies.

I agree with most of what Dvorak said, but I feel he left out the possibilities which may remain. When taking potshots at what is, we must be willing to contribute to what could be. It's too easy to sit back and be entertained (or not) in this culture, and to complain about the crumminess of such.

Which brings me, of course, to money. Big money funds big projects (war, mass media, porn), and negative money is left for the rest (social services, serious art). (Negative money, if you haven't guessed, is the kind backing most indie projects: zero bank balance + debt.)

So: What can be created on a negative budget? This Web site, for one thing.

But why do it? What's it "for"? Why struggle, day in and night out, in a boiling-hot office, with borrowed tools, till 3 am?

Artists and scientists will know the answer.

Note: Imported from Websafe Studio blog (07-15-03 to 02-01-06). Updated: 08-08-03, 2:14 pm.

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