poetics of transport? forming rhizomes projecting Manifesto for all cases Diary, European Memesis - Language is a virus associating online thinking: the art of cut-ups feeding assembling imaginary library recursion ... to much! Electronic Writing (C.R.E.W.) on-screen-thinking knowlegde structures
This theme, of the humanization of technology through the equalization of unequal dimensions, becomes directly political in "Electronic Cafè", since it is about the dimensions of community and social organization. Due to the revolution in the field of microelectronics, it will likely be possible in our present decade for almost everyone to employ their own information apparatus as a home industry on a level which has until now only been affordable to corporations. The "Electronic Cafè" is therefore no rhetorical gesture, but rather, a practical model for a real alternative network/archive environment, that can be produced at constantly sinking costs. The duration of the project - six weeks instead of six hours, with the possibility of unlimited prolongation - is important in this respect. It will be possible to talk of a dimension of influence.
Youngblood, Gene: Der virtuelle Raum. Die elektronischen Umfelder von Mobile Image, in: Ars Electronica. Festival für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Linz 1986, p.299