Day two: unfathomable networks
We start somewhere and we end up somewhere else . . . . .
The idea of unfathomable networks leapt from the theme of
the network out of control which pervaded my experience in ‘THE PHONE’. There
is this big network there in cyberspace, unseeable and unknowlable that sits floating
above in the atmosphere in signals or below in the broadband networks,
surrounding our everyday life.
Much of our work nowadays is online and filling in forms and
pages, making sure that things cross check that links work and that people can
find their way through the maze to us. ME ME Me ME ME
Networks, mazes, rhizomes snakes, worms
I mean this very festival was predicated on the idea that it
could exist online far more coherently than in real space.
One of the things on my list was Updating websites
It was a tedious process but each time you added links or
ironed out the communications you provided new paths from one website to another.
You enabled people to understand your project more or to discover the project. You
provided clarity.
One of the methods was to place information about the
project at the bottom of each post. Sometimes I had neglected to do it. It was
more time effective to past e it all in at one go, so you could spend a couple
of hours opening up each post and pasting the text in, it was a process of
·
choosing the next post to pen by scrolling, pressing
‘edit’
·
writing by hand the first word on the post so
that you knew where you were up to
·
putting the cursor at the correct place on the
blog page,
·
pressing enter twice to place some space between
the bottom of the blog and the informative text
·
pressing control ‘v’ to paste the text
·
Pressing the update button
·
Then beginning the steps again, glancing at the
handwritten list to see where you are up to and looking for the next post . . .
I found the handwritten list interesting.
It was there each time I worked on uploading. I needed the handwritten list to
keep track of what I was doing.
I was very aware that
a great deal of my art practice relied on, or used, or its very existence was
inescapable from using the internet to communicate what I was doing.
Then I was searching for where I hadn’t put labels and
pasting them in.
. . . . . . . .
Then I constructed this website . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
Then I constructed this document of writing ,
Then I constructed the Worm!
I found the worm very difficult to do. I was juggling
between websites with their editing open or closed and between files of worm
pictures, worm text and handwritten notes about what I had done, where I was
going, what I had checked what I was yet to do. And drawing worms and scanning
them. I realized that my work is mostly interfaces between the internet and the
hand-made or hand-written. The internet as a communication tool was in the
middle and it was the audience. But I was gleeful that the worm worked.
Here is the text I had to have open whilst I made it and I gradually
pasted in the website links to keep track of things . . . . . .
‘Hello! You have encountered The
worm
The worm is a little website
tour that worms its way through websites
about the work of Debbie Harman
Qadri
It is part of the Ten days to the Island Festival
the next worm link is:
1
2 http://messageinacup.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/rosies-cup-everyone-learns-different-way.html
3 http://mosaicprojectsbydebbieqadri.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/mural-at-brunswick-southwest-primary.html
4 https://debbieharmanqadri.com/ephemeral-public-space-practice/
5 http://bowerbirdsnest42.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/red-chairs-ten-days-to-island.html
6 https://dhqceramics.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/metal-and-clay/
7 http://drawingthelibrary.blogspot.com.au/2015_06_01_archive.html
8 https://ayearofenvelopes.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/it-is-so-hard-most-times-to-part-with-the-day/
9 http://abandonedselves.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/abandoned-selves-re-imagined-exhibition.html
12 https://concretepoetrymadness.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/hello-testing-grounds/
13 http://thecirclebookofchildhoodstories.blogspot.com.au/2016_12_01_archive.html
14 http://badmothercartoons.blogspot.com.au/2008/03/excuse-me-mam-i-think-youve-left-your.html
You will be getting sick of me now
After reading the artists ruminations which might have been
completely boring
You can now get on with the experience of the worm.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Hello! You have encountered The worm
The worm is a little website tour that worms its way through
websites
about the work of Debbie Harman Qadri
It is part of the Ten
days to the Island Festival
the next worm link is: http://messageinacup.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/rosies-cup-everyone-learns-different-way.html
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