Yes, The Potential of Objects + signifier and signified Erika Lincoln Electronic Media Artist Winnipeg/Manitoba/Canada http://www.lincolnlab.net
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Olga <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Olga <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Hybrid objects > To: "Netbehaviour (post to the list)" <[email protected]> > Received: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:48 PM > 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 > __________________________________________________________________ Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail: http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/newmail/overview2/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
