Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1510131510310.4778@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: exportskin
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
exportskin http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/renesting.jpg renesting.jpg - the source and punctum of exportskin - is modified from an image of Gretta Louw, grettalouw.com, part of her Disbursing the Cloud project at http://tinyurl.com/o37h62e . exported skin: what's left of skin, carapace/skein/shadow, one might add fossil or coagulation. reminding of the wound that won't disappear, the cicatrix that remains, remnant; even in the virtual, life oozes, uncanny rift between construct and representation. it goes there, its odor, seepage. where you might see numbers, one might see code, one might see one, one might see nothing, zero. for code coagulates, churns, strangles code, knots of dna, oddity. so something uncomfortable, huddled against the onslaught, onslaughter, to come, the scorching, servers severed, down, process of unmemory, risk, annihilation. for remnant is just that, remains, of a meal of a body, of a culture, remains of a language. the cold scorch, the scorch of code, the dissolution of code which is code, the remnant.