Intro
Digital entities are like nature, they do not belong to anyone. The net is a morphing distributed body mirroring current human culture. Any digital immaterial creation can be instantiated in infinite number of copies identical to the original native file. Every file is original. Culture does not have owners.
Goals
- track the history of digital media art on the net, its transformations, works-chains, artists (mapping relations)
- allow direct connection and dialogue between users, creators, viewers, artists, listeners, voyeurs and people in general
- contain instructions and suggestions on best usage, digital file destiny and fate
- feedback on art and communication, develop discussion about content, aesthetics, philosophy, art
Questions
- what is a digital entity?
- what are the characteristics of a minimal unit to be considered a digital resource?
- can the concept of ‘non-property’ be a positive alternative to the stigmatized idea of ‘Piracy’?
- meta-data: what words are really descriptive?
- what is the best balance in a language that is machine and human understandable?
- tagging vs metadata: what system can give the most interesting results?
- singularity and doubt: what is virtual?
- according to Deleuze there is no difference between real and virtual; differentiation and singularity are quantitative, the degree of power is thus potential …
- can we start doubting of the very chair we are sitting on? if we think that virtual does not exist, are we sure that real does?
- what is the relation between soul and existence? A file can exist without soul, but the soul modifies its ontological status, determining its independency in terms of life