What I will be doing for Socialized is to go back a century. The Vandercook letterpress I will be using is the offspring of the Gutenberg press (1450).

I believe that the internet is bringing information to the public the same way Gutenberg did with his press. Like the communications media which preceded it, the best use of the Internet is that which is bespoke, or handcrafted, for a particular purpose, audience, aesthetic and objective.

Before Gutenberg, the bible was hand written and only available to the few who could afford one. Once he started printing, the bible and other books were then made available at an affordable price, and the golden age of publicly available information was born.

Now with the internet, we have the same revolution where all information is available. Bad, good, wrong, right, everything. There will be a day when there will be someone like me who will resurrect the Archaic form of the “internet” as an artform.

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