[spectre] _I Am Transreal_ : [part 1] [_Augmentology.com_]
_I am Transreal_: A Reflection On/Of Becoming Dragon [Part 1] [complete version with video and links here:] http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/29/_i-am-transreal_-a-reflection-onof-becoming-dragon-part-1/ I am transreal. Look at me. When you do, a million iridescent scales across my dragon hide flick, move and align to create a multiplicity of perceptions, transversal illusions and realities cutting through each other, intersecting, dancing. Look at me. You see a shimmering of my fantasies and yours, a convergence of your minute sensory events, your imaginary constructs and my desires. Look at me. The mythopoetic elements of your reality and mine come into contact, unwind and become a recombinant event of male and female and something else, something more, for just an instant. Perhaps after that initial instant, one of your myths takes over your perception and you decide that you understand, but before that, I instill confusion and doubt. I can see it on your face. I am becoming mythopoetic, a shapeshifting creature of legend, a dragon. Standing here, on the border, the sunlight through the clouds defeating the fence, I am transreal, between realities, moving through layers of the symbolic, the imaginary and the real, simultaneously quivering, swapping out and swapping back in, too fast to find the border between them. I am existing between my fantasies and desires, which are driving the changing form of my body, and the moment of perception in which you see me and call me maam, sir, dude, miss, or avoid choosing a category. Speaking, being with different people throughout the day, my body and name changes, my realness or unrealness oscillates. You see me standing here, but really, you see my avatar, my body, which is under construction. We bring our illusions together. You see soft skin. I see the pills and the bloody razor that made it soft, making me feel happier, more feminine. You see scales, I see textured prims and their glow values. A dark moment in the street at night, your illusions of masculinity swirl up against the confusion I install in you, and you attack. My reality becomes a blur, a flurry of motion, and a sharp chemical emotional reaction, as I strike back with pressurized chemical weapons. Yet even in that moment, I am transreal, between my reality and yours, only finding a hard fissure between the two. In bed with my lover, we are transreal, deep in our illusions of each other, feeling our very real emotions for each other, between bodies, looking into her eyes, slipping out of myself and my concerns and out into the bright nebula of pleasure. -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] TRANSFERA VIDEOART CHANNEL TV
que...@s Videoamantes, Transfera sigue despierta y alerta. Durante los meses de julio y agosto, para descanso de algunos, retransmitirá programas ya emitidos, mientras preparamos para septiembre nuevos capítulos con vídeos de los siguientes artistas: DIEGO ARANDOJO BRIAN DELEVIE / ISSHAELA INGHAM RUGGERO MANTOVANI SHIGE MORIYA NOELIA GARCIA MURIANA BERNIE RODDY ROBIN WHENARY KYE WILSON También estamos organizando la Muestra de Videoarte (MADATAC), sobre cuya celebración os informaremos más adelante. El Staff de Transfera os desea una gozosas vacaciones! www.transfera.es Dear Video Lovers, Transfera continues awake and on the alert. During the months of July and August, for the repose of some, will retransmit programs already emitted, while we prepare for September new chapters with videos of the following artists: DIEGO ARANDOJO BRIAN DELEVIE / ISSHAELA INGHAM RUGGERO MANTOVANI SHIGE MORIYA NOELIA GARCIA MURIANA BERNIE RODDY ROBIN WHENARY KYE WILSON Also we are organizing the Videoart Mostra (MADATAC), on whose celebration we will report you further on. Transfera Staff desires you a joyful holidays! www.transfera.es __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Friday 31st July 9PM: Sensory Response Systems with Ryan Jordan [London] at General Public [Berlin]
Ryan Jordan presents and performs his Sensory Response Systems as part of a micro_residency at _-micro-research [July 29 to August 1] exploring plant and body sensing. Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audio-visual performance using an array of sensors responsive to physical movements in order to control the audio-visual output in programmes such as PD and Max/MSP. It also looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric, textiles and technology. We draw from inspiration and definition through reference to embodiment, phenomenology, post-modernism, post-humanism, performance, physical computing and computer sound. Ryan Jordan is currently studying MFA Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths College, London and developing a large scale dance performance integrating the human body and technology. He is also setting up a research network based around this area and working part-time with a community music project. Ryan Jordan is a member of OpenLab, London. Entrance free. General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin travel: U2 > Senefelder Platz http://www.generalpublic.de/ More information: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj/ http://www.1010.co.uk/org/micro_residency.html __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
