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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Poetics of the Virtual
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:00:48 -0400 (EDT)
Poetics of the Virtual Second Life as a laboratory for phenomenology of representations of space- time: think of multiply-connected geometries and configurations, dynamic impossible behaviors, behavioral and object intersections and collisions, spews, and interiorities. We work concretely and theoretically towards a poetics and psychophysics of the virtual through Second Life; through abject and inconceivable topologies, we experience an obdurate alterity. The poetics of the avatar is dependent upon dissemination, dissimulation, and dispersion. One moves as a dispersion as well, moves through skein- and sheave-skin; time and objects loop, are activated, suffer through detumescence, collapse, revive, are always already potential. The world is peculiar; one object teleports, another spews, a third crackles video. Thanks to Sugar Seville, Sandy Baldwin, Ian Ah, and others, the space becomes more complex, problematic. We have a five-month residency here. "This exhibit is being presented in the networked environment Second Life on the Odyssey simulator. To view this work you must have a Second Life account and avatar. To set up an account, go here: http://secondlife.com/ Once you are logged into Second Life, click this link: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 - the Second Life client will teleport your avatar to the location of the exhibit. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate your avatar through the exhibit and be sure to press play on both the audio and video buttons located on the lower right of your Second Life client." Complexity and change at SL site: http://www.alansondheim.org/ sll jpg series Studies: http://www.alansondheim.org/slarch01.mp4 (regimes) http://www.alansondheim.org/slarch02.mp4 (self-occlusions) http://www.alansondheim.org/slarch03.mp4 (tiled twitching) http://www.alansondheim.org/slarch04.mp4 (render regimes) Father and Daughter portraits (Joanna Sondheim Alan Sondheim) http://www.alansondheim.org/fatheranddaughter2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/fatheranddaughter3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/fatheranddaughter4.jpg Soundwork with tamburitza basprim 4-course brac: http://www.alansondheim.org/basprim1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/basprim2.mp3
