Re: [-empyre-] the promise

[Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no>]

tim jaeger wrote:
> And as immersive technology, such drugs alter brain functions, serotonin,
> neurotransmitters...you can look away from your URL and end your immersive
> experience, but you can't just log-off once you've popped the pills.  Prozac
> as paradigmatic net.art: zoping up your interaction with other humans since
> 1988.

so is there much drug art yet? are drugs a medium? are they 
interactive or merely controlling? and how about all that electronic 
medicine that's starting to come in; i saw a video at a conference of 
a man with parkinsons' (you know, all trembly) having a few 
electrodes on his body "adjusting his internal electrical balances" 
and hey presto he could move normally, tremble-free. i can imagine 
some pretty weird art happening with that technology.

this is a list about "media art" - i guess that's an infinitely wide agenda.

Jill
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Jill Walker / Dept of Humanistic Informatics / University of Bergen / 
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