[IWAR] HERF more silliness

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Date: Sun May 24 1998 - 16:00:51 PDT

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    At least the domain name is appropriate.  M
    
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    Subject:          Re: INFOWAR: RE: information and art
    
    dva wrote:
    >However moving on...,I wonder now about art and infowar.
    >It seems that art can act in information systems to jam relationships
    >etc.(...)
    
    I am an artist myself and work as much as possible with information
    technology, since technology is a natural partner to the arts. What I
    doubt is that many artists will find it important enough to get involved
    with kind of moralistic issues to correct information of others e.g.
    agencies which have an interest in manipulation of masses etc. After all
    Beethovens nonth synphonie is a lot of information for some, but for
    others much more than that... We should recognise the fact that there is a
    lot which can't be explained. This is the very true side of art, it does
    not fit in categories like information. The magic is that it uses
    information, transzends it and through this process of transformation
    creates new information. Who ever experienced this power finds it a waste
    of time to deal with crooks. 
    
    
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