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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: For the Cyposium online conference this coming Friday -
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:36:04 -0400 (EDT)
For the Cyposium online conference this coming Friday - http://www.cyposium.net/ - check it out - Cyposium Materials: Abstract: It's dangerous to consider the virtual as a brave new world; the virtual has always been with us. But the lure now is the supposition that it engenders the potential of eternity, and escape from pain and death. In the meantime, the physical world is the Disaster of the Anthropocene. We must look, with open eyes, at the obdurate nature of the Real, through any means possible. We must accept our own deaths. I will discuss my work in virtual worlds and performance (with the collaboration of others) in this regard. List of extinctions, Wired magazine, responsibility, Martha Stewart tape, the obdurate real and its limitations - eternity and the digital, universal access across and within the database, porous privacy, abject 'smearing' of the subject, death as unacceptable, performance as a setting-up or setting-out - leaving debris behind - performance and art as stain or residue - tendency always towards the archive - images from war against war, the wounded images from chicago mocap - upload one of the videos - empathy and mirror neurons - the foofwa performance - real obdurate world of the dancer - no jump cuts in the real - eal movement of bodies without jump cuts - absence of jump cuts and the body's relation to substance - the uncanny nature of substance - holographic universe - deepen tanglement - then there's the world as unaccountable, unaccounted- for, etc. On empyre, pain and cosmologies, and distorted or factured - the Other, multiverse - images of the cosmos, not from a deatched, but from a psycho-physiological viewpoint - Performance http://www.foofwa.com/productions/video/choreiagraphies.html Please look at Involuntaries 4 in particular. http://www.foofwa.com/productions/video/Breaking-New-Ground.pdf (text by Alan Sondheim) Videos: http://www.alansondheim.org/numbhir.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/homelike.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/notenough.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/iabuse.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/traffic.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/juluprint5.jpg http://http://www.alansondheim.org/4p_6.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/4b8sl.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/2p_rom_7.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/alanprint05.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/firrrry.mp4