[-empyre-] Subject: re: 'bidimensionality":net spaces beyond Cartesian axes

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

Dear Melinda

I would enjoy hearing more about your ideas on "organicly soft 
tri-dimensional space". It seems to adhere to my evaluation that art now is 
a matter of visualizing aesthetic sensations linked to technological and 
sexual concepts. Art-tech is essentially a mental prosthetic then for both 
the machinic and the corporal domain. The function of this prosthetic (art) 
is to create, by extenuation, different technological-aesthetic percepts.

Specifically in my case, my recent computer-robotic assisted paintings are 
an investigation into the sphere of the pan-sexual under the conditions of 
what I call "viractuality" (occasions where the virtual and the actual 
merge) - circumstances which are not quite historically conditioned yet. To 
do this, my computer-robotic assisted paintings focus on an interface 
between the virtual and the actual (the viractual) by putting the classical 
canvas in confrontation with informatics. But why?

First, 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.

Secondly, with the increased augmentation of the self via micro-electronics 
feasible today, the real may co-exist with the virtual and the organic fuse 
with the computer-robotic. Consequently, I am interested in a new unbridled 
sense of artistic viractuality which couples the biological with the 
technological and the stable canvas with the ephemeral digital.

The work's extensive ornate excess attempts to give to us an expansive 
metaphor for our computational condition - our state of digital-assisted 
being. In the rising and collapsing of alternative sexual visualizations and 
unordered revelations seen in the work, the circuits of the mind may find a 
dexterity exactly congruent with the viractualís configuration. As such, my 
viractual computer-robotic assisted paintings strive for a depiction of an 
anti-essentiality of the body-in-bits which allows no privileged sexual 
logos, but insists, rather, on a displacement or deferral of meaning. Here 
images of the flesh are further undone by viral disturbances they cannot 
contain. This viral-viractual-visual situation creates ribald opportunities 
for transgressions of conventional erotic limitations. In the workís 
pan-sexual rupture, aphrodisiac thought detaches itself from the order and 
authority of the old signs and topples down into the realm of viractual 
reverie. This pan-sexual viractual contemplation is certainly the most 
erudite area of our unconsciousness, I feel, - as it is the deep down depth 
from which we beings emerged into our precarious, but glittering, existence.

Yours in increasing bifurcations,
Joseph Nechvatal



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