Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1502081219060.20738@panix5.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Fantastic!
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 12:24:56 -0500 (EST)
Fantastic! http://www.alansondheim.org/fantastic1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/fantastic.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/fantastic3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/fantastic5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/fantastic7.png Fantastic with the projection from physical reality into virtual prosceniums, double projects - those of the condensed scale of geological time in ration with the life of an organism, and those from traditional or realist paintings which are already a projection into or within the frame, and the embodiment of the frame within the space of the museum; I was witness, an witness, to all three, the space of the painting and museum; the space of geological time and its manifestations; and the space of the dis/embodiment of both within the virtual world. In this case, the virtual world also has an immediate embodiment, within the hard-drive of my laptop; it is a localhost running part of the MacGrid implementation of OpenSim, specifically part of my own sim/s located elsewhere, on Canadian servers. And fantastic with the blend of fantasy and obdurate reality, granting absolution within the imaginary panoply of digital display, pixellated and smoothed, one file among many, again beginning on local host, stored elsewhere, delivered to you. And the next moment will be the addition of speech or text, as if this structure were a container for all the thinking in the world, at the very least the projection of that thinking, for which I say again, yes, and we are all virtual, and we are all avatars, watching the panoply, and avatars, like us, like files, must die.