notes on a rainy day
Thursday, May 23rd, 2002It's interesting to me how little of the current hypertext/new media theory comes from people of my generation. Look at websites containing essays on cyberculture, and you'll find the majority of them have that "circa 1994″ look of simplified layout and clunky graphics, and are maintained by people our parents' age (e.g., Sherry Turkle, Theodore Roszak, etc). People my age grew up right on the cusp of modern computing — we had the Apple IIse, the Commodore Vic 20, and similar pre-floppy disk, pre-hard drive machines. The internet was a sci-fi concept that came to us most prominently through War Games. Still, we grew up with the technology; we came of age right when the World Wide Web first became big, and many of us (myself included) came of age as artists specifically because our contact with other artists through the global network.
So here's the question: we're all using the network. Why aren't we writing about it?
