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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: fully opened, fully closed
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
fully opened, fully closed Julu Twine was tuned and retuned; the particle spew was moved from abdomen to chest - the bvh files had more movement in that region than in the pelvis, which was near the root node, and therefore fairly quiescent. Once the move was made, the invisible generator attachment was slid back into the area of the womb, since birth occurs in the tuning and retuning. What then? For the most part, a simulacrum or masquerade of a womb or pelvis or abdomen node. Symptoms develop: on occasion the source of torso generation moves from womb to a position outside the body of Julu Twine; it's following the chest, not the womb, and therefore a displacement occurs. Now with spawn - which is just that, spawn from loins as displace- ment from chest - it's possible to see Julu Twine in mid-air with full movement, and Julu Twine confined in an enclosed watery depression between building and earth. In the confinement, there is shuddering; in the shud- dering, there is masquerade and continuous torso production which appears to emerge freely from the space, a signal or at the very least, a sign. But this emergence, this torso, itself is a fantasm; it's nothing more than a texture, a detailed square patch which appears, from certain angles, to possess weight, dimension, volume. So this is one fantasm among many, but a fantasm which goes nowhere; it can't be grasped in Second Life and such couldn't be grasped anywhere. So the shuddering, this apparent simulacrum of sex, this byproduct of confinement according to the codes and protocols of Second Life, produces a signal and a frisson among non- existent bodies, perhaps among viewers, perhaps a thrill or shudder, again, at the birth of a symptom. It's this symptom, this excess of desire in confinement and plein air, that disturbs, is read, goes nowhere - and goes nowhere because of its autonomy, autonomic nervousness, autonomic neurosis, railroad kidney and railroad spine and the like. It's what appears to be a chance result of programming; it's in reality the uneasy confluence of programming and interoperability, and collisions among programs. I take full responsibility, at the same time releasing Julu Twine to her own amazing ends. Now I dream Julu Twine, I no longer know my own sex, but I own to no other and know no other, nor an other; it's all uncomfortable and dis/eased masquerade, something tawdry that I simultan- eously turn towards and away from, something in my character, a virus or parasite, a parasite of alterity, dreams of others, incandescent. Technical note: To go to any of these files, it's not necessary to go to http://www.alansondheim.org and scroll down. Please go to the webpage and, at least in Foxfire (other browsers may differ in details), click on "Last modified" - this orders the directory by date, with the earliest at the top. Click on it a second time, and the latest is at the top; at the moment this is the spawn.mp4 file. You can always find the latest files this way - they're at the top when "Last modified" is clicked wise - and they're the ones that are referenced in the latest text as well. http://www.alansondheim.org/spawn.mp4 this has been replaced by http://www.alansondheim.org/spawn.mp4 which was originally entitled openclosed.mp4 - see above. To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 ==