Re: <documenta X><blast> home-affect
Alan * Sondheim (sondheim@panix.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
When I was in Perth, we had a meeting with aboriginal groups associated
with the universities there, re: cyberspace. One of the uses developed for
the Net is to interconnect widely-dispersed people who share dreamtime
heritage, but who have difficulty remaining in touch. So that cyberspace
becomes a mapping of physical/nomadic/territorial space, but an elsewhere-
mapping, related to dreamtime itself. The pages allow the recuperation or
continuance of dreamtime; they're also password-locked to outsiders.
They also function of course as a fetishization of the written over the
oral, and the problematic associated with these strategies.
As far as I know this project is still under development.
Alan
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