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Experimedia Simplexity
MIEKAL AND

this is a manifesto I wrote a month or two after getting my first computer: (tho by experimedia I refer to the mixture of all media)

experimedia simplexity:
a manifesto festering

every artist creates from the comfortable edge of their domain, trying, pushing, retreating, conjuring specimens that can be called their own. when I began my mature work some 10 years ago i was convinced that every discovery I made was my own & that I in essence possessed those ideas, those creations & in a non-interactive vacuum perhaps this could be the reality.... however with the beginning of the xerox network (inknowingly the mutant child of the mimeo revolution of the 60's) in the 80's it became possible for any energetic artist to interface his/her work internationally & have that visual/verbal information assimilated in the global mind. instant, cheap printing has meant that every artist is a participating publisher/artist & that for really the first time in history the artist is in some control of the media they create. the notion of self-publishing is no longer an exercise in vanity but an integral link in fostering multiple strata of instantaneous culture.

here is where the quibbling begins, because we are faced with notions of aesthetics & communication which are more than a 100 years old & except for the experimental front there has been little reconciliation between the culture & what it has become & how rapidly it is permutating & the consequent art which is created.

poetry & fiction have been replaced by "the text" & the practice of any art has enlarged to intimacy with all arts, with an investigation into the culture beneath the culture. because information & ideas are bombarding our sphere so rapidly the procedure of invention & experimentation is simultaneous with instant printing, rapid communication & the chameleon quality of the artist. more appropriate terms for new art may be velocity, impact, shifting, compounding, etc., rather than "this is a good poem, that's a bad painting." utility & erotics, perhaps are closer specifics. the sensations received & its usefulness completely bypass the critical facility until it becomes more than an unconscious reaction....

"...there are those artists who shed skin after skin, retaining the wisdom of the past experience but learning to accept an unending onslaught of information & culture."

how many lives will it take to say what is yet to be said?

Miekal And
August 1986
 

Qazingulaza
is a Web site gallery of new media experimental art and literature by Miekal And, Lyx Ish, Liaizon Wakest, Allegra Fi Wakest, and very creative friends. Here you will find exciting exploratory visual, literary, and audio works -- a practical expression of some of the ideas Miekal has considered for more than a decade.

Here is a pure creativity, purely for the sake of it, and your opportunity to participate with some of the most interesting and thoughtful artists I have encountered anywhere in cyberspace. Visit, engage, enjoy...
 

Email Miekal And: dtv@mwt.net


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