soft focus television

Ian Svenonius has a television program on vice magazine's internet television station. (Thanks Vanessa and Brian for telling me about this.) I just watched two episodes, one interview with Genesis P. Orridge, and one with Calvin Johnson (thanks K site). The parallels between the two are interesting, perhaps they are themes recurrent through Svenonius's choice of interview questions, but they are of immediate interest to me. While Genesis gets more esoteric with the approach, Calvin is more pragmatic while they both discuss the tangibility of artistic experience, namely music consumption. What is the cultural significance of holding a seven inch record in your hands vs downloading it off the internet. While the advancement has proven unavoidable, the collective memory is what is now in danger of disappearing. In my library school, we often discuss staying ahead of the technological curve, so as to cater to and appeal to the younger, advancing masses. Must remain relevant. It is acting in fear however, of one day becoming obsolete - though no one says such. We are the facilitators of the experience of interacting with a physical data instrument. "Take responsibility for your own evolution" says P-Orridge.