ganglia, networ http://www.alansondheim.org/quantum1.png https://youtu.be/xaDhGCuaMEY http://www.alansondheim.org/quantum2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/quantum3.png two performers go to the floor; a single avatar body distributed between them. the performers move around each other, closer and farther; the avatar body 'coagulates' and 'dissolves.' the real bodies are indicated by white dots, the motion capture markers; the colored bars and forms are the machinery of the software. one can easily imagine animal consciousness distributed among neural ganglia (think of crayfish for example); coherency and totalization is an emergent and constantly-forming process. here motion capture is at the service of independent performers and what we see is a rough gestalt as a third party attempts sense from their movement. so what emerges at times is a singularity, as if there were an uncanny quantum mechanics at work, producing the illusion of one from many. think termites, think flocks of birds, think splatter semiotics. here, here is somewhat there, and what is somewhat there, is here. the embedded singularity we apply to humans - _the_ mind, _the_ body, _the_ person, _the_ gender - is problematized from the start. think microbiome, and begin and end with that - not "either A or B" but a form of "neither A nor B" that opens up domains, presents structures and ghosts and ghosts of structures that --- Jakeia Lorree, performer, conceptions Louis Wells, performer, facilitator, conceptions Augustus Wendell, motion capture, conceptions Alan Sondheim, motion capture, conceptions Azure Carter, facilitator, conceptions Andrew Klobucar, facilitator STEM+ Residency sponsorship New Jersey Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
