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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: The body/works
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:34:26 -0400 (EDT)
The body/works These works characterize anomalous space whose worlding is internal, by which I mean there are no external relations, only the body generating its own skein, represented by markers situated at the nodes of motion capture technology. The shuddering of the space is the shuddering of the body; the emblems of the space constitute the space in its entirety - there is nothing else; what you see as background is designed for visual pleasure alone. Now you will notice that bodysphere is ragged; this is the result of considerable compression, bodysphere being a production of quaggy, that is, quaggy mapped onto a sphere which then moves/motivates as nodes are distended, memories of a totality, 3-dimensional Jordan surface, or perhaps given the break=throughs, multiply-connected toroi of which the sphere is only the visual external remnant, already penetrated. Penetrated by what? By the very nature of digital motion capture, which as in all things digital, requires both raster and bandwidth, as well as tolerance - here what are absent are the entrances and exits of body tubes, holes in other words, as well as those details which, for us, create the semblance of both sentience and physique. In these spaces, only crudely represented in a 3-space mapping into 2-space, something new is being born: the world as representation, not will, the hollowed world of virtual skeins which is already our future anterior; we are what we will become; these are blown images, imaginaries, as flat as the bytes from which they are visually constituted; these are, literally, all that there is, eyes and ears, touch and taste, scent and smell, within. Within, without, there is no symbolic, no difference, no differance. The future is here, one's memory. http://www.asondheim.org/bodysphere.mp4 http://www.asondheim.org/quaggy.avi still up - http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/embedded/index.html