From bret@eskimo.com Wed Mar 15 17:42:23 PST 1995 >From bret@eskimo.com Wed Mar 15 17:42:22 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA26272; Wed, 15 Mar 95 17:42:22 -0800 Received: from mail.eskimo.com by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA01804; Wed, 15 Mar 95 17:42:20 -0800 Received: from [192.0.2.1] by mail.eskimo.com (5.65c/1.35) id AA10914; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 17:42:13 -0800 X-Sender: bret@mail.eskimo.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 17:46:44 -0800 To: cyberartists@u.washington.edu From: bret@eskimo.com (Bret Battey) Subject: RE: DigiArt Snobberty Stewart Said: >Why is your sense of wonder disconnected from your soul? Good point, of course -- it isn't or shouldn't be. We had a good presentation this summer from a magician who argued well, I think, that wonder is an important healing experience. But I do know that the nature of my response to glass or fractals is very different than the nature of my response to, say, Matisse or Mahler. I don't understand the nature of that difference. And I think that this distinction is part of what technological artists -- myself included in my recent grad school applications -- tend to run up against with traditional art venues. Its like how I value the Juggling Jukebox project -- even though I was a co-author, it is still a great source of wonder for me, and I value the fact that children find it a source of wonder. But its a very different kind of value than I find in my own more 'traditional' expressive musical works. The later provide me with both wonder and a sense that I'm exploring my psyche, which I rarely had with the Jukebox. On the other hand, maybe I -- and the traditional arts venues -- need learn to be less addicted to emotive introspection ;-) -=Bret ============================================================================== Bret Battey * Seattle, Washington, USA * bret@eskimo.com Composer, Acoustic and Interactive-Algorithmic Music The Bat Page: Online Gallery and Downloadable Creative Works available at http://www.eskimo.com/~bret/ .