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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Existential
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 02:01:04 -0400 (EDT)
Existential http://www.asondheim.org/existential.mp4 In this endless variant, distorted (so that rotations and translations in 3-space will be clear) cones model a full motion-capture body generated by Poser; the original movements are from bearing.mp4 . So the 3 recent pieces: existential.mp4, bearing.mp4, and sartre.mp4 - all concerned with the distorted project of existential human. Now in this latest, the vague outlines of body are more or less visible... I could see a meta-ball construction relating the body itself, extrusion of Lingis / Lingam. I keep moving through these spaces, one step at a time - the goal - which I will not attempt with the machinery I use - would be a .bvh file of hundreds of thousands of nodes, modeling human behavior against the back- ground of culture and ecology. And the result? An inconceivable construct of hundreds of thousands of meta-objects, taking shape, joining, giving an image of Godhead Creation itself (Godhead Creating, Creating Godhead). _That_ is the face of Levinas or Sartre, _that_ is the peripheral of Vito Acconci or Leder, _that_ is semiotic in relation to Kristevan semiotic, positive entropy of information in relation to negative entropy of infor- mation. It is unimaginable; the space would be huge, the files enormous, the rendering a question of months, not hours. Yet at the end is a Shadow waiting for clarity. I think Hegel would approve.