"– INTERNET AS WILDERNESS: The same evening as Rhizome’s ArtBase talk, contemporary art blog Hyperallergic hosted a conversation with EcoArtTech, the artist duo of Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The pair’s work, mingling nature with technology by breaking down the barrier between the real and the virtual, seems particularly timely. What I found most intriguing was Nadir and Peppermint’s discussion of the idea of “wilderness” and “wildness” as it relates to the Internet. Natural wilderness is organic, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable — what could its online equivalent be? Caverns of lost Geocities pages? An epic virtual tangle of unused and decaying Tumblrs?"

タンブラーという言葉に反応リブログ。自然としてのインターネット。

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