re. Digital Skin
MAF Thailand (2005)
http://culturebase.org/home/thailand/MAF05/viewpage.php?menu_item=A_festival_theme
http://culturebase.org/home/thailand/MAF05/viewpage.php?menu_item=B_maf_images
re. Cyborgs discussion
everybody here TALKING about cyborgs but funny enough there were ZERO
programmers responding to my call "seeking hardcore programmer"
i wonder what is this discussion all about and who is going to do the
work;
it seems there is not a single hardware engineer or a serious programmer
reading this list - or?
perhaps the heads of departments, historians, academics, philosophers and
talkers should unite with a FUND to hire programmers to do something
about all this talk..?
hope to hear opinions
best regards from thailand
francis
Re.
> Hi Avi
>
> Thank you for your "Digital Skin".
> If Cyberspace is our skin, our body is a Network-body and a flat
> screen. If my memory is good, this made you say in a previous post
> that we are all cyborgs. At the same time there is a resistance to
> that. Actual matter resists to being resumed to digital matter.
> Thickness resists to being resumed to 2-dimensions. Physical bodies
> resist to being resumed to images. This resistence interests me.
> Things are not just flowing. They also scratch and scream. And cyborgs
> are not just the bright future of a superhumanity !
>
> In the 1970s, Jean-François Lyotard wrote about "The great ephemeral
> skin" in his book Libidinal Economy (Theories of Contemporary
> Culture). He was describing it as a carnal extrusion and a virtual
> membrane where the world and our desires would meet. It is "ephemeral"
> because it is in constant mutation. Cyberspace is like this "great
> ephemeral skin", just as language is.
>
> Here is an intersting artwork where the human body is scanned,
> fragmented and recomposed through machines and softwares which pervert
> the idea of mapping (GoogleEarth)
> http://www.locurto-outcault.com/index.html
>
> Best
>
> Stéphane
>
> Le 22 juil. 09 à 07:12, Avi Rosen a écrit :
>
> > Hi Stéphane,
> > Very interesting subject "Epithelia, Creative Skins"...
> > I made some artworks on this theme: "Digital Skin 2" -
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIO5bnV4i6E
> >
> > "The Cyberspace is an extension of the human foot, eye and the skin.
> > The
> > electronic gadgets and the data sphere are Galactic immediate Torus
> > like
> > extension of the human central nervous system, and the stage of
> > 'Digital
> > Skin' performance. It creates virtual extension of Marcel Duchamp's
> > unfinished "Big Glass" piece, his voice (manipulated by the speed of
> > light)on the video explains it. The transparent Cyberbody (digital
> > mummy) is
> > located eternally in cyberspace superposition. The departure and
> > arrival are
> > compressed to a singularity(Paul Virilio), on the digital skin's
> > surface.
> > 'Digital Skin 2' video sequence is bricolage of my endless virtual
> > voyages (
> > 'Digital Skin' is another example of such trajectory) in cyberspace,
> > superimposing personal data on public data base (Goggle Earth and
> > Sky). My
> > body digital data strips, merged with the Earth and cosmos digital
> > data
> > strips produced by the satellites and telescopes. The digitalization
> > of the
> > universe and our body transformed it to a flat image displayed on the
> > computer monitor ('Digital Skin').The digital video sequences are
> > the MEME
> > for further construction \deconstruction of cyber audiovisual mutual
> > memory
> > and universal knowledge."
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Avi Rosen,
> >
> >
> > This is the first time I contribute to this discussion. I am a visual
> > artist and art theorist. I am wrighting a book about skin as a
> > creative process ( "Epithelia, Creative Skins", "Les peaux créatrices"
> > in French).
> >
> >
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