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Category: Art & Music Description: I need your assistance with a project I'm working on right now. Pwetty pwease help me?!?!? Type: public Created By: AndreCarlos
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I Sing the Body Electric: The Bodiless Exultation of Cyberspace
[For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace... the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat.]
William Gibson (Neuromancer, 1984)
PROPOSAL:
What happens to the body in a non-physical space, more specifically cyberspace? I lot of my recent work deals with gay social communities and dating on the Internet. In the excerpt from Neuromancer, Gibson suggests that humans depend on cyber communities as sexual outlets because of the lack of physical contact, or the absence of the body. However, the body is not entirely absent in the virtual world that is the Internet. Gay web communities revolve around the talk of the body. Instead of physical bodies, fantasy bodies are created. I am interested in the anatomy of these fantasy bodies. What are they made of? When dissecting the cyber body, it consists of codes and imagination; coded information creates references to reality, enabling users to virtually lead their ultimate sexual fantasies.
I am currently exploring how technology can act as flesh. While spending countless hours on a gay cyber community over Winter break, I realized that the extent of physicality involved in my Internet relationships was my fingers typing on a keyboard. I am going to collect computer keyboards and arrange them into one form on a wall. En masse, keyboards will interact as a network (cords/wires connecting them together), but will be also viewed as a collective body. In order to create machine flesh, I am going to dip the keyboards into colored latex; the keyboards will have a fleshy texture and have skin tone. This is my solution for bringing virtual bodies into a physical realm.
I was recently inspired while reading an excerpt from Steve Dixon's Digital Performance. In the chapter Dixon describes Igloo's performance, Viking Shoppers (2000). In the performance, live movements were recorded, converted into numbers and letter symbols of ASCII code, and then projected. The performers thus performed duets with their coded doubles. I am going to collect fantasies that gay cyberspace community users have of me, and write my own fantasies about the participating individuals beforehand. I will make movements based on the relationships between the fantasies, photograph the movements (and make a stop-animation in Processing), and then convert the footage into code (either ASCII or HTML). The processing animation will also contain excerpts from the collection of fantasies. The movements that I have been working on in my performance class (Live Presence/Technology/Virtual Spaces) are abstract drawings with the body; they are reactions to text/content. After I convert the stop-motion footage into ASCII or HTML code, I am going to project it onto the keyboards. A rectangle will be painted on the wall as a surface for the keyboards to be hung on; the rectangle will be the same size as the projection and will be the same color as the keyboard skin tone (that way, the projection will not hit bare wall). The keyboards will act as a screen for the video, making it appear as though the coded bodies are trapped in their technological flesh.
WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO:
Write fantasies about me. I am not trying to sound narcissistic. Fantasies about gay Internet lovers say a lot about how virtual bodies interact (in cyberspace, not reality). Then, send me your fantasy via DList e-mail. Length is completely up to you (but no need to be shy).
THEN... I am going to write fantasies about the participating DListers (prior to reading their fantasies). I will then observe the relationships between my fantasies and the participants' fantasies, see what the collective text says about the greater virtual gay realm, and generate ideas from there. The performance technique that I have been trained in involves connecting the mind to the body, forming abstract body movements. If you want to see who I've studied under, please look-up the world renowned Goat Island Performance Group.
ABOUT ME: I am a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and my current work involves performance (and other time-based arts such as video and processing), installations, sculpture, and sound. I am working to have my work exhibited this April. So PLEASE HELP ME. I have put a lot of time and effort into this project thus far, and it would mean the world to me if you participated in my scientific experiments.
(feel free to chit-chat with me if you want to be closer fwendzz)
[For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace... the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat.]
William Gibson (Neuromancer, 1984)
PROPOSAL:
What happens to the body in a non-physical space, more specifically cyberspace? I lot of my recent work deals with gay social communities and dating on the Internet. In the excerpt from Neuromancer, Gibson suggests that humans depend on cyber communities as sexual outlets because of the lack of physical contact, or the absence of the body. However, the body is not entirely absent in the virtual world that is the Internet. Gay web communities revolve around the talk of the body. Instead of physical bodies, fantasy bodies are created. I am interested in the anatomy of these fantasy bodies. What are they made of? When dissecting the cyber body, it consists of codes and imagination; coded information creates references to reality, enabling users to virtually lead their ultimate sexual fantasies.
I am currently exploring how technology can act as flesh. While spending countless hours on a gay cyber community over Winter break, I realized that the extent of physicality involved in my Internet relationships was my fingers typing on a keyboard. I am going to collect computer keyboards and arrange them into one form on a wall. En masse, keyboards will interact as a network (cords/wires connecting them together), but will be also viewed as a collective body. In order to create machine flesh, I am going to dip the keyboards into colored latex; the keyboards will have a fleshy texture and have skin tone. This is my solution for bringing virtual bodies into a physical realm.
I was recently inspired while reading an excerpt from Steve Dixon's Digital Performance. In the chapter
WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO:
Write fantasies about me. I am not trying to sound narcissistic. Fantasies about gay Internet lovers say a lot about how virtual bodies interact (in cyberspace, not reality). Then, send me your fantasy via DList e-mail. Length is completely up to you (but no need to be shy).
THEN... I am going to write fantasies about the participating DListers (prior to reading their fantasies). I will then observe the relationships between my fantasies and the participants' fantasies, see what the collective text says about the greater virtual gay realm, and generate ideas from there. The performance technique that I have been trained in involves connecting the mind to the body, forming abstract body movements. If you want to see who I've studied under, please look-up the world renowned Goat Island Performance Group.
ABOUT ME: I am a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and my current work involves performance (and other time-based arts such as video and processing), installations, sculpture, and sound. I am working to have my work exhibited this April. So PLEASE HELP ME. I have put a lot of time and effort into this project thus far, and it would mean the world to me if you participated in my scientific experiments.
(feel free to chit-chat with me if you want to be closer fwendzz)
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