Melinda RACKHAM

Distributed Thinker, Writer and Producer, Australia

Manifesto 4 Creating & Critiquing Media Arts in C21
Use: Appalling, impossible, inhabited, beauty, alternation, sensory, black, literally, chemical, enhancement suspended, insist delightfully, embracement clear, panic ecstasy, death, expansive, inspired intelligent, minimalism, childish wonder between, disorientation, complex, slowness creates intimacy, demanding.
Avoid: amorphous sensual space, suggestion illusion, gaps, downfall, overwork, optical, virtual, interwoven threads realism, surface, mixed metaphors hyper-stimulation trigger, sensation, parad, commodification, nothingness, stimulus and response, object, imagery, text, narrative, apertures collectively long, adult fancy. Non-humanoid avatar.
Insert: craving composed blackness, hollow, intensely frightening painful, whet, piercing, densely, grating, abruptly, hard and soft consciousness, remit, ceremoniously, antithesis, reflected, silence, bathed, spectacular arena, pleasure resides, epicurean, intense, simultaneous and risky, wonderlands.
Delete: ephemerality. Nothing tangible savored audio horizon, realigned, synchronized, globalized, movement, temporal zone, platform, sequence, overexposure, disappears, non-addictive, components vulnerable contemplative execution, relax, lie down, yield, seductive, visceral, sonic, light bath liquefies. Emotional geography.
Rules:
1. Simple, strong, subtle.
2. Seduction overcomes control.
3. Play is pleasure.
4. Contemplate and manipulate.
5. Abstraction amplifies minimalism.
6. Knowingly enjoy fleeting sensation
7. Slowness creates intimacy
8. Nothingness enhances emptiness.
9. Embrace chaotic banality.
10. Feel the love, then update your status.