Thursday, 19 March 2009

Why I hate the internet, yet am still doing a blog...

It's been about a month now I think since audiences started, and I have finally decided to start a blog. I was going to have a stop about it, and not do it, but on reflection, I realise this won't get me anywhere. It's because I hate the internet. I hate the idea of communicating virtually, and not engaging personally with people when you find something exciting. When I am excited about a piece of work, or something I've read or seen, I want to tell people about it, and show them, not battle with a computer, getting stuck behind firewalls and disconnected every five minutes. It worries me that eventually we will never see each other in the flesh, everybody's life will be virtual, with virtual friends and a virtual personality, where we know more about how Facebook operates than we do about our friends. My art is about being, and physical reactions. It's about the conversation that happens around it, and the facial expressions of the viewers; these things cannot happen in a virtual world. For this reason I have been reluctant to start a blog, but after realising that I am more than likely going to be marked down for not conforming, I have admitted defeat, and here it is...

2 comments:

  1. I was really sceptical at first too and I only had a negative opinion of blogging. I've avoided things like Facebook, I only have myspace because of music but I don't really know how to make more use of that.
    Anyway...after making a start and getting on with it for the sake of being marked I have to admit I'm getting much more out of it than I expected.
    I was really stuck with most aspects of my work but through forcing myself to think about these kind of things in this more public way, it's actually helped me to organise a lot of my thoughts and come to a few conclusions on how to move forward that I might have reached a lot more slowly.
    Give it a chance and you might change your mind : )
    Sorry, J x

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  2. Don't apologise! I know what you mean, and actually it is proving much easier to write on here when I find something interesting than it would be to hand write a journal, and I am enjoying the thought of everyone being able to see my ranting, as it's stuff I wouldn't necessarily say out loud to somebody. I've also just read that post back and I hate the way I've suggested that I didn't want to do it because then I would be 'conforming'. I don't have a problem with conforming at all! I've been reading your blog too, its like you turned inside out :) I hope you're well, haven't seen you properly in ages :) xxx

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