...quotations I like
Empedocles
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit (Nothing comes from Nothing)
[490 BC]
Marshall Mcluhan
If it works, it's obsolete.
[1963]
Norman White
Mistakes helps us transcend the original idea.
[2003]
David Tudor
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should
have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of
reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
[1926-1996]
Kim Cascone
The medium is no longer the message in glitch music:
the tool has became the message.
[2000]
Walter Benjamin
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is
lacking in one element: its presence in time and space,
its unique extistence at the place where it happens to be.
[1936]
Iman Moradi
...they exhibit themselves in the surface of other media
perhaps as a layer of visual communication that shows something
has gone wrong. They are sub media.
[2004]
Rosalind Krauss
Video's real medium is a psychological situation,
the very terms of which are to withdraw attention
form an external object -an other- and invest it in the Self.
[1978]
Marshall Mcluhan
First we shape our tools and then tools shape us.
[1967]
John Glenn
Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage
in an electrical current.
[1962]
David Tudor
I think of analog technology as a medium. It certainly sounds
very different from computer-produced sound, so I would say that
some works are realizable with different media but others are not.
[1926-1996]
David Zicarelli
I would only observe that in most high-profile gigs,
failure tends to be far more interesting to the audience
than succes.
[1999]
Jonas Salk
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
[1914-1995]
Zen Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
[unknown]