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Look at this! This image of an event that happened a couple of weeks ago in Norway . . . this image is what raw cultural energy looks like! Kids sharing creative work; lil' computer animations 'n graphics. This is an art-making scene that is actually happening. Context for this event is found here. As opposed, I'm afraid, to our beloved e-literature scene, which I love wholeheartedly, but which, objectively, is not happening, and which I believe could use to think about its relationship with its audience a bit. Yeah, yeah . . . I know how stultifying and trivial most of the stuff in the wacky-hacky demoscene is. But pure cultural energy is, in itself, a force to be reckoned with (and channeled toward depth, complexity, history . . . in our roles as teachers and mentors). The impulses are among us . . . William and Scott spinning music while we write together . . . awareness of the experience of 'wordsmanship I think we e-lit types should be aiming at an energy level like the one in this picture. |
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