Smoke and Clouds

In Poetics, Termite on 30 December 2008 with 1 comment

The artwork as a field of potential meaning. Frustrating for some, exhilarating for others. An interview with Diane Williams in elimae.

elimae: …. Is it your aim, as much as you may be able to describe your aim, to allow the language of your fictions to achieve some semblance beyond which you intended, to become, in the manner of smoke and clouds, substances amplified beyond and abstracted from the particles of which they are composed?

Diane Williams: Yes, yes, yes, yes, this is my aim! If you have guessed this is my aim, then your question has brought me the sort of happiness I have not had in the longest time!

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my earliest days on the net in regards to art and collaborations and re-purposed media reflects this thinking. i experimented, both solely and with others, with what i called at the time – interdigitations. aiming for simplistic, even sudden, interweavings of audio and visual and textual media… that in essence allowed for re-interpretative value for the ‘viewer’.

inspiration came from what I and others considered synchronicity art. a branch of which was basically a hobby where people synchronized albums and films. Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz was probably the best known example.

Posted by sull on 9 January 2009 @ 12pm