http://jordantate.com/blog/ilikethisart/ ---this blog is fantastic!
http://www.meulensteen.com
http://daniel-everett.com/n/conversations.html
comments on daniel everett's piece conversations with a computer posted on the website www.rizhome.org
''NICK29 | THU, FEB 12TH, 2009 5:49 P.M.
Um, this is nothing new; the piece comes from using ELIZA, the well-known program written by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966 and available widely since then. I presume the artist is using the version that is bundled with emacs, a text-editor (and much more) that is available in all standard distributions of Unix/Linux, of which Mac OS X is one. Sherry Turkle has written extensively (in the 1980s and 1990s) about people's experiences with such computer programs; see The Second Self and Life on the Screen.
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JOHANSEN18 | FRI, FEB 13TH, 2009 1:15 A.M.
That's like saying photography is nothing new because you know it was made with a camera or because people have photographed in the past. We are all super impressed that you know what program the artist used, but come on, what an asinine comment.
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NICK29 | TUE, FEB 17TH, 2009 5:21 P.M.
No, the comment is about dehistoricizing a practice that already succumbs to that enough via standard discourse. I would have appreciated comment by the editors about how this was related to earlier work and how it follows in a decades-long tradition---and is not something that is just "discovered" in the "operating system of Mac computers". I am critiquing more the editorial decision to feature the work, absent any commentary about it, and accepting the artist's words as providing enough context, rather than the work itself---if my intent was not clear.''
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http://www.justinkemp.com/djvsrm.html
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