Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1611060023390.1926@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Fucking Bad Mashup of my Work.
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 00:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
Fucking Bad Mashup of my Work If I'm not part of the solution I'm part of the problem. Cross your Eyes and dot your T's. http://www.alansondheim.org/badmashup.jpg My name is Alan Sondheim and I approve this message. have been working with computers for decades, specifically virtual worlds motion capture the past fifteen or so. developed notion of 'codework' to indicate works in which code presenced on surface, but problematic - meaning uneasily inhabits distinctions among 'worlds work' program-spaces. Of course themselves are entangled many other things, such as body, abjection, 'dirt' mix. In capture, I've worked altered software mapping, producing distorted avatars avatar behaviors. worlds, concepts gamespace, edgespace, blankspace; here some very rough definitions examples Gamespace rule-governed space any game where 'game' defined anything from TAZ Arctic exploration chess; one plays within rules. The rules can be fuzzy, invisible, even non-existent. Edgespace my term what occurs at boundaries/borders gamespace assumed behaviors fall apart, still functions a broken totality, although 'untoward' contrary occur. includes soft hacks, griefing, permeating in-game barriers, so forth. Blankspace it gets interesting projections introjections (psychoanalytical terms) happens edgespace. realm dreams, fantasms, appearances, ideologies, suturings, An example above attempting clean proper mapping world, Mercator projections, GPS, etc. 'logic' map. 'reading' Antarctic regions world all way through, say, 1880; these were presented worldmaps blanks, often contradictory delineations landmass/watermass (i.e. if you follow shoreline, example, land, might transform into shoreline sea) there 'logical' 'fills' edgespace get quaint 'Heere bee dragonnes' placed edgespaces think Mandeville's Travels. Much recent work deals blankspace: occurred; it's few years old, hopefully clear example. All terms, regions, each other; no boundaries, absolute delineations. More recently, semiotic splatter fragmented chaotic semiosis, both control dissolution. use that semiosis never totalized, falls coagulates clumps; relates defuge, incessant presencing material appears more stale derogated. Semiotic related strange attractors chaos theory leads (semiotic generation) coagulative hardening rise totalitarianism out (political, economic) chaos. This connects idea/l an dictionary definition tautology: 'syzygy = syzygy' _effect_ goes beyond (saying election 'rigged' over again rubs off, derogates, projected abject me mythical deathdrive; patience, watch 4-minute Finally, practice write/produce daily level; doing pieces (text/music/image/video) since 1994, continuous meditation first, 'cyberspace,' now extended elsewhere. End of Fucking Bad Mashup of my Work