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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Frontier
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:08:48 -0500 (EST)
Frontier I like to believe I'm working on a frontier and all I can tell you is what's on the normative side of things; the rest is yet to be seen, unabsorbed. Once brought in from the Pale, it's of lesser interest, but beyond the Pale there's nothing but the agony of shadows. Defuge takes over and the frontier, always an imaginary, shudders and reconvenes. The videos/choreographies exist between human and human - someone was there making the original files with motion capture, and someone is at the other end, watching and using them once again. The virtual is a shadow of the real, the real is a shadow of the virtual, and within the true world superimpositions, gestures, and the fading of ontologies characterize what remains of the fixity of inscriptive practices of the classical and modern ages. (Images brought back, as in a search and destroy operation, nothing left but the appearance of empty houses, in reality natural and uncanny forma- tions.) http://www.alansondheim.org/config01.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config02.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config03.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config05.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config06.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config07.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config08.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config10.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/config11.jpg