All The New Media Are Art Forms

Positively, The Effect Of Speeding Up Temporal Sequence Is To Abolish Time, Much As The Telegraph And Cable Abolished Space. Of Course, The Photograph Does Both.

First We Shape Our Tools, Thereafter They Shape Us

Professionalism Is Environmental. Amateurism Is Anti Environmental. Professionalism Merges The Individual Into Patterns Of Total Environment. Amateurism Seeks The Development Of The Total Awareness Of The Individual And The Critical Awareness Of The Ground Rules Of Society. The Amateur Can Afford To Loose.

For Those For Whom The Sex Act Has Come To Seem Mechanical And Merely The Meeting And Manipulation Of Body Parts, There Often Remains A Hunger Which Can Be Called Metaphysical But Which Is Not Recognized As Such, And Which Seeks Satisfaction In Physical Danger, Or Sometimes In Torture, Suicide, Or Murder.

All Media Exist To Invest Our Lives With Artificial Perceptions And Arbitrary Values.