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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Never making it whole again.
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
Never making it whole again. Small image sequences taken from reprocessing of deconstructive scans: Azure's head, a 'toy' gun, vacuum tube, and crystal glass. The objects were reconstituted using volume wrap. But they could not be so. They transformed, not otherwise, but other otherwise. Therefore they continued transformation. I have yet to understand the processing of time in these instances, except for the obvious possibility of collapse somehow differentiated from the time-exposures of photographic prints. In the latter, the image is constituted as a simultaneity. In the former, it is almost has if there remained a separation of parts, based on digital access and manipulation of the three-dimensional raster field. Such a separation, and the setup of the hardware and software, and the continuous tending, and the resonance of that tending, has all the hallmarks of ritual. So the digital collapse of time, the circumscription of inscription, circumlocution of enunciation, this is a form, perhaps the form, of ritual. And each circum read into the matrix is abject, somewhat crawling and crawled, for what is subject and what is object? Each circum is partial, almost but not quite, in fact irrevocably weakened, in such a manner that the fullness or fecundity of reconstitution is an impossibility. The ritual of the head, the gun, the tube, the glass. And presence and absence construed in the place of, vanishing in the place of, the fetish. Or the procurement of a dissipated fetish. Dissipation in the sense of spew or emission, and dissipation in the sense of sexual exhaustion, defuge, but always gaping, more. http://www.asondheim.org/azureheadwrap.mp4 http://www.asondheim.org/gunwrap.mp4 http://www.asondheim.org/tubewrap.mp4 http://www.asondheim.org/crystalglasswrap.mp4 Making it whole again. ===