#embodied virtuality

[fettesans]

Fette Sans, The bitter ends of (the technologies of tenderness), 2020.

From Sept 21 - 27, I will be streaming from one room here to another there, part of the group exhibition at Haus Wien. Watch.

[nativesknow]

@GreatDismal on some of the key themes that dominate our technological epoch. Nuggets:

Circa 23:00  "I think it’s about the internet turning itself inside out." "I think in the longer sense its becoming something we won’t talk about because it will have colonized everything. It was fun to have my little neologism ‘cyberspace’ turn into a word that lots of people use everyday to describe something that is actually real. But what I’ve always been interested in is how it would disappear. Like, I saw it come in to use, and I thought well, am I gonna see it go out? And I think it’s starting to go out because it no longer describes what’s happening. When people started using ‘cyberspace’ to describe aspects of their life experience, it was kind of somewhere else, it was over there, it was behind your computer screen. It was a nominal space. And now its not like that, at all. We all move constantly, literally and physically through ITS coordinates."

Circa 27:00 "It’s like we look at the Victorians and think well, for some reason, they had a need to deny that sex existed. When we are the Victorians, people will be looking back at us and saying - for some reason they needed to distinguish between what they thought of as the real and the virtual. But these two forces are still very powerfully, culturally in play. I don’t think it will be resolved for a whole generation."

Circa 35:00 "I forget which French poet said: the city changes faster than the human heart. And I think there is an element of that sensibility in all of my work. My sense of it is: simply that it inherently saddens us all when the environment that we grew up in goes away. It’s a modern sensibility. Everything goes away. The things you knew when you were a child aren’t there anymore. And that seems to be constant and faster for us than it was for people five or six hundred years ago." Circa 36: 50 "Every technology is morally neutral until you do something with it. When we get an emergent technology, we’ll wind up using it for things (its creators) never dreamed of."