BBC + AWOBMOLG + "The Net"
Vol Libre (by Loren Carpenter)
Carpenter was featured in Adam Curtis' first third of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace last the other night on the BBC. The documentary was an antagonistic socio-techno-political lecture/dog's dinner (in good and bad ways). Carpenter and his giant Pong/human murmuration experiment stood out for me and I'm glad I looked him up.
AWOBMOLG was also enjoyable because it was on BBC2, featured reels of over-saturated nineties NSTC footage and therefore brought back fond memories from my geekily mispent youth watching BBC's The Net; reading Microserfs and emailing my best mate (three streets over) about it using my numerical character only address. Despite its name, subject matter and the BBC's track record it is hard to find much about The Net on the, uh, net. If you have more then send me an "E-Mail" to [email protected].
Here is a retro treat. As with Curtis' film this clip features the Clinton family but without the unsettling Lewinsky/Leonard Cohen overdub.