Re: [-empyre-] New subthread

["Melinda Rackham" <melinda@unsw.edu.au>]

patrick wrote:

> I refer you to my latest video/print series entiotled "8 Bits or Less" and
to
> http://www.voyd.com/8bol
> I feel that the mediation of perception and the methodology of
> representation embodied by wearable technologies has it  an interesting
> localized discursive structure.  It exhibits the shifts in perspective in
> the location on the body, its intimacy, the crude method of representation

this is a hilarous video, and the chunky aesthetic is even better when its
scrunched by real player..
re "my hearing is in my hip , my  eye is in my wrist " etc
..that body shift seems to happen all the time but we dont notice it.. like
when our skin and body space shifts to become the size of our motor
vechile..
 i was speaking to someone the other day who said she had to put her glasses
on to concentrate on telephone converstions,  and that she thought her
hearing was also located in her eye sight,
and to go back a while the sandy stone performance she did for several
years - where she had an orgasm on stage by rubbing the palm of her hand ,
where she said she had remapped her genetials.... so rubbing the palm of her
hand was erotic..

i guees it goes back to the whole binay split shift thing - one sense is
supposedly localised and dedicated, and it is seen as a perversion if it is
used for another method of perception.
 im pretty interreted in how peopel who are blind "see" and "feel" the world
, like differentiating colour by warmth emmanating from it , how fish feel
thier rivers , how we have spacial senses that are not related to vision ..
any way i' m digressing..


http://www.voyd.com/ia/nomadmax.htm
> Secondly, in the case of verbotenbilden, all of the sites recorded are, at
> least in  the US, 'verboten' (forbidden).  This is ether by law, by
> corporate policy, by intellectual property rights, museum conservation
> issues, personal privacy rights, or other taboos.  The increased level of
> control legislation is brought into question by wearable recording
> technology that runs 'stealth' within stores, security checkpoints, and so

the images seem so innocent.. reminds me of the recent news story of british
"plane spotting" tourists in greece who where all arrested for taking
snapshots of airplanes near the airport and all faced up to 20 years goal
under the greek national security act.. even the woman sitting in the tour
bus with her thermos, not even taking photos was charged. i guess its the
level of surveillance that the corporation/government  etc undertakes is
proportional to how much they legislate against, or are paranoid about it
being done to themselves..

> lay bare the issues of control that such spaces engender.  In addition, as
> these devices are getting much, much cheaper ($50 on ebay), could they be
> used as a form of activist tool?

like wrist cams streaming to the net  so that security  images are made
public in real time? even if the definition is not great now..course the bit
rate will up really quickly so that real information, not just the sense of
invasion could be transmitted.

> and collection?  If we as artists are to believe the gallery owners in
> equating the worth of a work with its collectability, linked to its
> logevity, why collect art at all, and why do net and PDA art at all?  My
> view toward the digital arts is much similar to that of the Fluxus and
> Performance Art movements, but I leave this up for discussion.

in my more cynical moments i think its cause  we cant help ourselves..
and given that the museum system does ty to squish this sort of mobile or
nomadic practic into its traditional criteria  i actually do wonder what the
future of net art is.. i guess a few of the fluxus and performance artist
got famous and sold their documentation, like good old christo and his
wrapping photos, yoko ono seems to keep popping up too.. but what happened
to the rest of them..

perhpas the next move for all of us is low res net art and pda screen shot
calenders