Why are artists such insufferable writers?
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The software Pastiche that renders a virtual New York city from NY-related keywords came with this baffling description:
Conceptually, Pastiche is a parallel experience of the city, a map that not only documents, but also suggests action. It is a public counterpart to the private physical architecture of the city. Its source an aggregate of individual blogs, Pastiche is a system that anyone has the ability to contribute to. It defines a new kind of public space, while both proposing an experience and inviting comparison-in the process of relating one’s own perspective to a larger collective subjectivity, one situates oneself in relation to an impromptu community, formed around the idea of New York.
Well, thank you for quantifying this description as only pertaining to the concept and not the actual work itself. Is there a version that does more than suggest action? I searched the interface, but could not find the ‘propose an experience’ button to activate the app’s claimed functionality. And as part of a comparison-invited collectively subjecting situation, I would like to propose that blah blah blah, ZZZzzzz…
Visit Pashiche’s website and count the new media buzzwords.


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