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...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]