Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0201202219520.22000-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: bass museum new media panel 1/21/02: i do
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:20:10 -0500 (EST)
- bass museum new media panel 1/21/02: i do {large on window 1:} the LOST project created for the trAce online writing group:: people wrote about things they lost and never found again:: the descriptions were put up online in a list:: the writers' names were also put up, separated from their descriptions:: in order to enter the description, you had to write through what appeared to be a Web-page on the verge of collapse... {window 2: the lost project at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/lost/} {window 3: Life .mov: text-quicktime of year-by-year bio truncated at 74 letters} {large on window 4:} my work's concerned with language, sexuality, the virtual body and subjectivity - all of these elements interacting online and off - i'm concerned with what happens beneath the surface, the coding, the psychoanalytics, the substances i'm concerned, i'm very concerned {window 5: Seals .mov: azure and i writing/rewriting each other's bodies} {in window 4 i write:} Seals the signs are early Chinese ideograms for breathing, circulating, soul, the sign just above the genitals is negation, still in use today: working through a form of deconstruction {in window 1 i continue to write:} people lose their identities here. the screen jiggles as if broken. their names are separated from the descriptions of their lost belongings {in window 4 i continue to write:} i work with broken things, code as if it wouldn't work, bodies as if they're falling apart, text that has bones in it coming to the surface {texts in window 1 and window 4 mix} {i close all windows except for window 5} {i enlarge window 5: blurred image of azure and i turning our bodies together: the signs are rubbing off, rubbing off} {i close window 5} _