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A document is not necessarily a simulation of paper. In the most general sense, a document is a package of ideas created by human minds and addressed to human minds, intended for the furtherance of those ideas and those minds. Human ideas manifest as text, connections, diagrams and more: thus how to store them and present them is a crucial issue for civilization.

Theodor H. Nelson in “Transliterature: A Humanist Format for Re-Usable Documents and Media” [site seems to be offline]

My internet is substantially quieter than yours, and teaches me new things every day.

If someone thinks putting work online or putting subtitles on a video or turning the volume up or having a transcript compromises the experience, then we dont need to work together. Surprisingly, these are rebuttals I hear mostly from administrators and curators— rarely from artists. Im very fortunate in that I commission new work almost exclusively from artists, specifically for the digital space, so these are conversations that were having at the outset, not after the fact, and even that isnt enough. I could and need to do more.