To: webartery <webartery@yahoogroups.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:01:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re:  The Digital Writer



I've written smaller essays throughout my work on this. Code itself, as
far as I'm concerned, is neutral, or almost neutral. The 'hello world'
beginning programs in various languages print out 'hello world' when run -
they illustrate part of the program shell. But suppose you have a line
reading something like 'i\'m burning alive - this is for real' - the
line's obtrusive, carries meaning through the code. I use code for two
things - as a background process/catalyst for the text, and as a
foregrounding to indicate the history and urgency of the text - as well as
its substructure, which has to be overcome - i.e. the formal aspects have
to retreat to the background, to be seen as scaffolding, carrying the
foregrounded message.

Alan

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Yvonne Martinsson wrote:

> >I'm most concerned with
> > meaning - with the psychology, philosophy, emotion, intensity, political
> > positioning, that comes through my work - code is an attribute, a means -
> > if my work lacks this sort of content, it's nothing - Alan
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> Hi Alan, i'm interested in knowing what you mean by "code is an attribute, a
> means". Does it carry meaning? If so, in what way(s)? If you've written
> something about this, could you give me a link?
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> -- yvonne
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