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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: algal (text and short video)
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 12:11:05 -0400 (EDT)
algal Ikonic texture-mapping which seems to shift from imaginary to real, a condition of the imaginary. Influenced by stromatolites, formed from shine/bump mapping onto altered three-dimensional mapping of Azure, using the large laser at WVU's Virtual Environments Lab. One organism lends itself to another, the fossil life of oil lends itself to the blanketing of life-now, molecular turmoil bringing everything down. The moment of language/writing pasted on textures; the moment of textures and objects signing in; the moment of reading dragged text; the narratological moments of (diegetic) difference; the moments of stumbling and surprise; the moment of aural understand- ing; the moment of conflicting streams of symbols or sounds; the moment of scraped meaning - moment of the gift or withdrawal - moment of useless identities - moment of ontologies of coherent structure - or the beginnings of life, stromatolites near origins - http://www.alansondheim.org/algal.mov