Re: <documenta X><blast>focus on problems

joel weishaus (reality@unm.edu)
Sun, 22 Jun 1997 07:26:10 -0600 (MDT)

On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, murph the surf wrote:

>
> We might use technology to "un-see" what we have grown accustomed to. This
> seems to be one of the goals of immersive VR. But, then again, I think
> that's what the frame of mind we call art should do anyway. Not a
> revelation of truth so much as an opening-up or unblocking to the facts
> we've learned to ignore.

This is a good thought, except that no technology imprints one deeply
enough to "un-see" for more that a short time, before old conceptual
habits return. If, however, immersive VR can lead to a new way of
life...and isn't this what we're talking about? Not VR as another toy, Art
Movement, or academic department; but as an alternative North.

Thus, I don't think it's a matter of how much information, but which
direction.

-Joel