[-empyre-] virtual embodiment - some thoughts on resonances of the virtual in 2014

[Johannes Birringer]

p.s.

(Roy Ascott's vision of "love" in the telematic embrace was of course a kind of  theoretical manifesto, a credo, and so it must be appreciated within its historical
context of the early years"of the digital/networks - 1970s/1980s)

This is what Ascott also suggests, and some of it still has a bearing:

>It may not be an exaggeration to say that the "content" of telematic art will depend in large measure on the nature of the interface; 
that is, the kind of configurations and assemblies of image, sound, and text, the kind of restructuring and articulation of environment 
that telematic interactivity might yield, will be determined by the freedoms and fluidity available at the interface.>*


This might inspire us to inquire into control systems and the current assemblages, & thus the conditions under which something like
"virtual embodiment" is producible, even if fantasmatically and as a perverse ideology.  


regards
Johannes


*
http://telematicconnections.walkerart.org/overview/overview_ascott.html