One week ago I was going through the security check at the JFK airport and suddenly a bag appears to be unattended. During the minutes while the uncertainty lasted I found myself caught in a reflection. That was the perfect example of a hybrid object! A physical object, a bag, most probably full of clothes and other personal objects, attached to a fiction, a terrorist attack.
This possibility of a bag that contains a bomb haunted the actual bag (that didn't contain a bomb) for a few minutes. A virtual bag invaded an actual bag and used it to reach us. The physical object then worked as a channel that allowed a virtual bag to have its effects in actuality. A hybrid object is basically a physical object attached to a fiction. Most of my attempts to use fiction as a way to intervene reality rely on physical objects located on the urban landscape that ideally are capable of catapulting the passer-by into a fictional world. During my flight that day I wrote a few observations I'd like to share. More >>> http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/hybrid-objects/ -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
