[-empyre-] Returning to bidimensionality & the body

["Joseph Nechvatal" <joseph_nechvatal@hotmail.com>]

Dear Barbara

Concerning ideas of a ?Modern Project' here which supposedly might "remake 
the world as it 'should be"? Who knows what it should be? {^_~} No, I?m more 
interested in unaccustomed post-post-modern conditions (those which I see as 
viractual) where cultural workers develop particulars which are not quite 
historically conditioned yet. The function a prosthetic viractual  
techno-art, for me, is to create new deviant ? although erudite - 
technological-aesthetic percepts. The goal is a society which might better 
focus on an interfaces between the virtual and the actual (the viractual) 
which includes the energy of nature.

So yes, I think that we can develop to know ourselves as bidimensional, as 
you suggest. I am trying to embody this idea in my art this way: I very much 
like to work with the digital in its predominant visual form, the immaterial 
abstract information of pixels and I like very much the world wide 
transportable dimension of the Internet, where the digital data-stream 
travels at the speed of light - but I also like to see a large-scaled 
semblance just sitting still on an unchanging canvas so I can silently 
reflect on it and move within the work in natural light at my leisure with 
customary unrestrictions to my bodily movements.

My work's extensive ornate excess attempts to give to society an expansive 
metaphor for the viractual / bidimensional condition - our current state of 
digital-assisted being. In the rising and collapsing of alternative 
visualizations and unordered revelations seen in the work, the circuits of 
the mind, I hope, may find a dexterity exactly congruence with the formation 
of the viractual.


Joseph Nechvatal
http://www.nechvatal.net



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