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"Virtual Concrete" remythologizes the ontological status of electronic
places, and reimag(in)es our relationship to technological systems. It
addresses the continued and accelerated merging and refashioning of
the organic with the inorganic, the human with the technological -- a
merging and refashioning constantly misrecognized as no longer
"real." It is a kind of reflexive exteriorization of an interior self
projected onto and into cybernetic spaces, both literally (through the
CU-SeeMe Internet vid-link) and figuratively (through the
concretized silicon subjectivities). It is about desiring bodies, infected
bodies, vir(tu)al bodies longing for, or perhaps dying to escape from,
rapid technological convergence; it never is, nor should it be, quite
clear.
Text by Robert Nideffer
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