{"id":709,"date":"2021-08-25T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:55:24","slug":"olia-lialina-an-infinite-seance-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/olia-lialina-an-infinite-seance-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Olia Lialina: &#8220;An Infinite Seance, Part Four&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*If this is the sort of net-dot-art discussion that you like, you&#8217;re really going to like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/art.teleportacia.org\/observation\/infinite_seance_4\/\">http:\/\/art.teleportacia.org\/observation\/infinite_seance_4\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>An Infinite S\u00e9ance 4<br \/>\nImpatience<\/p>\n<p>This essay concludes the series and will become part of the book An Infinite S\u00e9ance, to be published by<br \/>\n Light Industry in early 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA medium survives as long as the form of experience that characterizes it survives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>   \u2014 Francesco Casetti, The Lumi\u00e8re Galaxy, 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230; we can\u2019t go back &#8230; to this ethereal beautiful web experience not only because we don\u2019t have time-machines but because it never really existed &#8230;\u201d<br \/>\n  \u2014 Ashley Blewer, Throttled, 2020<\/p>\n<p>    \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Has Stuttgart 21 already been completed?<\/p>\n<div id=\"loader\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"answer\">No<\/div>\n<div id=\"interactive\"><button>Check again<\/button><\/div>\n<p>\u201d1<\/p>\n<p>   \u2014 Dragan Espenschied, Ist Stuttgart 21 schon fertig?, 2012 <\/p>\n<p>Can we talk about the web experience as a phenomenon, as a graspable, tangible fact, the same way film folks talk about the cinema or film experience? Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n<p>It is complicated, since the web is buried under the general discussion of digital and post-digital. Media theoreticians have already found all the right words for The Digital, pointing to its \u201cpromises\u201d \u2013 perfect mirror and touch of infinity (Turkle)2; and \u201cprinciples\u201d \u2013 numerical representation, automation, modularity, variability, transcoding (Manovich)3; or \u201cpowers\u201d \u2013 procedural, participatory, encyclopedic (Murray)4; and \u201ccultural forms\u201d \u2013 referentiality, communality, and algorithmicity (Stalder)5. <\/p>\n<p>On another side, the habit of calling everything humans can do with a computer an \u201cexperience,\u201d which is widespread in Human-Computer Interaction and especially Experience Design circles, polluted the language6  and devalued attempts to look closer at particular phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>And, first and foremost, it is not easy due to the tendency to see the web as an environment that only delivers cinema, theater, video games, and other experiences. Indeed, the web is a generous and modest medium \u2013 millions are using it without even knowing that it exists. It doesn\u2019t impose, it adapts. And that\u2019s how it survived. <\/p>\n<p>This is the answer I would give to the question \u201cWhat is the web experience?\u201d in all other contexts, but not for the \u201cInfinite Seance\u201d series, which started as an attempt to communicate to the spirits of both \u2013 cinema and the WWW&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*If this is the sort of net-dot-art discussion that you like, you&#8217;re really going to like this. http:\/\/art.teleportacia.org\/observation\/infinite_seance_4\/ An Infinite S\u00e9ance 4 Impatience This essay concludes the series and will become part of the book An Infinite S\u00e9ance, to be published by Light Industry in early 2022. \u201cA medium survives as long as the form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - 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