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churchbasement kimn

5 months ago

i really like the backgrounds on the main page, reminds me of needle point or somthing :)

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churchbasement updated welcome to the basement

5 months ago

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elilenti 5 months ago

You're right that all of our computing is a drain on the environment. But computers are incredibly enmeshed into our society now. If we went back and used old technology... I suspect something would happen along the lines of the economic impact of COVID. When China ceased production for a bit to quarantine. Ceasing business production also means they stopped using many of the computers they use for work.

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elilenti 5 months ago

And we're still feeling the aftermath of COVID, with inflation skyrocketing, the quality of products getting shittier and shittier. There were also good and bad environmental effects from all of that. I remember reading somewhere that computers at this point are like an extension of ourselves. So it's gotten to the point where cutting off our current computing power is like cutting off an arm.

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elilenti 5 months ago

Of course someday, I hope we find a way to reduce computer's impact on the environment, and make the technology more accessible to people. Much of the world doesn't have the USA's high tech computing power. I remember reading somewhere that poorer nations are still using nokia flip phones and stuff from the 00s.

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visualculture 5 months ago

interesting, the problem seems to go both ways. new games require new hardware, but lots of old games require old hardware. or at least a lot of additional hoops to jump through to emulate them on new hardware

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visualculture 5 months ago

makes you realize how fleeting this artform is. its not pigments sitting on a canvas that will last indefinitely, they rely on relatively fragile/ephemeral platforms to be able to experience them

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churchbasement 5 months ago

it would totaly be like cutting off an arm. the internet is a very helpful tool and way for people to be notifyed about the world.

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churchbasement 5 months ago

we've already become cyborgs X)

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churchbasement 5 months ago

"a lot of additional hoops to jump through to emulate them on new hardware" right. ps2 or n64 emulation comes to mind. difficult to get it working corecly. or even old pc games. so many hoops to jump trough. espessialy if you don't know the hoops you need to jump through. yeah it really is so fragile. i mean a painting is fragile, but a game. so much more. i guess one could say "accsept the fragility".

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churchbasement 5 months ago

but one could also say "make it as strudy as possible". "so it lasts as long as possible". probebly somwhere in the middle. i guess computer art is still "new". historicaly. i wonder what computational art will look like 50years from now. will platforms and formats become more stable??

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kimn churchbasement

5 months ago

As somebody with a 32 bit arm chromebook - I feel your pain getting software working baha. Nothing is impossible though!!

churchbasement 5 months ago

BUT THE PAIN yeah ill keep tryin

visualculture churchbasement

5 months ago

i spent a couple hours reading your site and links so far (and havent even gotten to your audio yet), i really like the topics you write about. also nax is incredible

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