Do the unexpected

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Hedy Lamarr


Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Brian Aldiss


I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Graham Nelson


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New forms of art

What do you think of the discussion of the use of virtual realities, of new world structures which are made not only of words but also of images and three dimensional objects? People are discussing whether we are creating new forms of art and even a new concept of aesthetics.

David kolb - I think at the moment it is difficult for us to foresee because these new tools open so many possibilities and it is not clear what are the best ways or even what are the many possible ways to use them. I suspect that just as there is no one form of art which is the print form of art: there is poetry, there are novels, there are diaries, many different things.

So too virtual reality will end up spawning different kinds of art which will have quite different aesthetics. I think in some ways the kind which creates the most interesting problems for us is the kind where you would have abrupt juxtapositions of images and spaces. You might imagine for instance a virtual reality room that looks something like the library where we are now, and I go through the door and I am in the Baths of Caracalla, and then I go through another door and I am at my home in America. And this juxtaposition, this abrupt transition, could be used for artistic purposes. The difficulty is to use it in a way which does not become boring.

The problem of boredom comes when the reader or the experiencer senses that: "When I go through the next door, absolutely anything can happen." That is exciting but there is no playing with my expectations. There is no ability then to surprise me because I expected something else, and so your artistic tools become limited oddly by the fact that you have now allowed absolutely anything to happen.

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Hephaestus fashions strange creature

Zeus gave Talos 1 to Europa to be the warder of Crete, but this creature made of bronze was, according to some, the work of Hephaestus.

Curiously enough, some have represented Hephaestus as son of Talos 1, and Talos 1 as son of Cres. But, as it has been remarked:

"The legends of Greece generally have different forms, and this is particularly true of genealogy." [Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.53.5]

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Hacking ideology

Access to computers – and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works – should be unlimited and total....

All information should be free... Mistrust authority – promote decentralization... Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position... You can create art and beauty on a computer...

Computers can change your life for the better... sometimes the worse.

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