when the meet
when they dance for joy when they meet up here there is an offering each makes to the other, but neither can procure touch; everything revolves around, resolves within, the lineage of sight, citation, site. sight, citation, site = permissions = property, intellectual, flesh, sheave-skin. what might be traded might be taken back. what is given is never lost. what happens is that they take time to load and sometimes the clothing - julu's contraptions for example - don't load - s/he appears naked 'in the ordinary sense' - dojoji without the apparatus on the other hand has no organ at all. what happens when they meet - they remain at a distance - nothing touches - there's nothing there to touch, nothing there to do the touching - this is called an 'encounter,' this might be called 'intimacy.' the sinusoidl delineates bounded spatial regions of avatar and particle movement; the regions fade out and change dimensions in a highly trigono- metric way. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode01.png http://www.alansondheim.org/ode01.png arena of skulls and faces http://www.alansondheim.org/ode02.png julu twine and aylan dojoji on first encounter; julu is surrounded by her veils which generally glow. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode03.png another view from below; avatars look through each other in encounters, much as humans do. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode04.png reverse view. these organs don't fit; everything and nothing is visual, which is granted primacy: 'beneath the sign of vision' - 'beneath the visible sign. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode05.png aylan dojoji naked without prosthesis which has yet to appear after login: the waiting body, vertically supine. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode06.png aylan dojoji with prosthesis attached; this is a night revealing the bottom of the sea, diluted and abstracted landscape. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode07.png http://www.alansondheim.org/ode08.png http://www.alansondheim.org/ode09.png ode to joy after encounter: aylan dojoji dances alone according to the thrustext biovision hierarchy file; julu twine is nearby. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode10.png julu twine without hir contraption; this conception- body has been hidden by the veils. this is shortly after logon, before the veils have had a chance to form. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode11.png julu twine with full veil regalia, performing in intermediate space between sea and land and air, representations thereof. http://www.alansondheim.org/ode12.png http://www.alansondheim.org/ode13.png http://www.alansondheim.org/ode14.png groupings of parallelopipeds: the white box contains aylan dojoji moving according to motion- capture bvh files; the particle emissions are bounded and grouped as well. the white box changes shape, reflecting the avatar movement - the blue boxes move and fade out, following their particle groupings. http://www.alansondheim.org/sinusoidl.mov short video of boxes in motion. For upcoming Arena NW(101,65,37) installation in Second Life: 1. Dropping those objects which have been taken - piled, flight: every- thing flees, there's always clear space. 2. Physical objects: non-phantom, but dropped, held in position, but whatever for? 3. Something tawdry, indigestible. 4. Flight to such a degree that they soon tunnel out of site (for most settings), head out of world - the site has to be _tended,_ constantly refurbished. Tended = a tendency to _disappear._ 5. To work on _inpenetrable_ sound. 6. To work on transparent non-phantom objects: another position. 7. Intensities as things meld into one another - in the form of a debris field. 8. Debris field = Gaza-slaughter. (title?) | Eail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: | http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
