Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Jim Andrews re: Electronic Poetry

[Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>]

> ps Char Davies made a virtual world (osmose I think) where one could sink
> through a landscape of trees, streams etc, to a field of text beneath
> everything, the text being the code that generated the environment of the
> artwork. Kind of nicely self referential, amusing and profound.

Yes, I believe it was Osmose, although it's been a while.  The interesting 
thing is that one navigated this space through the use of a vestthat 
monitored your breathing. In this way, I think it was one o=f the more 
interesting metaphors for embodiment al la Hayles (body of data/body of 
flesh/body of text/body of code(S) ).