[NetBehaviour] suicide - please I beg of you, watch this -

[Alan Sondheim]

On Thu, 8 May 2014, marc garrett wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> I so love looking at artworks posted by people on the list. It feels more 
> real than on Facebook for example which is a kind of throw away experience. 
> Mainly because those on Facebook (including myself) are in competition with 
> each other for attention. Which is OK really, how else are artists going to 
> get their work seen beyond institutional curatorial remits. At least, on here 
> you know what the context is regarding a more focused, nuanced & collective 
> intentions with related crossovers.
>

I think I get more responses on dedicated Facebook pages than in the 
general broadcasts. And Facebook itself has gotten increasingly noisy over 
the years. G+ is quiet, but it's almost like a tomb - I never have 
responses there and even DJ Spooky seems to get close to none. I wouldn't 
be surprised if G+ is canceled soon.

> Getting back to your suicide piece - I watched the video and enjoyed viewing 
> your real-time interactions - or rather the recording of it in macGRID, 
> OpenSim platform. Which is a ?a robust, archivable, simulation research 
> platform and a corresponding network of academic, industry and community 
> partners who wish to engage in multidisciplinary research and creation, and 
> resource and knowledge sharing, using avatar virtual worlds and mixed reality 
> systems (currently with OpenSim).?
>

MacGrid is still under development, but there are 320 servers. I think 
there are a number of technical issues that are taking time to work out. 
I'm going to Hamilton to meet with one of the organizers again; we're 
going to collaborate on some pieces. The big advantage is that it really 
feels like an empty gallery space, very supple, without the baggage of 
Linden Labs. I wonder if Furtherfield would be interested in participating 
- I could bring that up.


> Reading the accompanying txt is a mind-bend?
>
> with words like?
>
> ?embryo suicide like now i think of and hillsO gnawed-blade hole
> tourniquet punished by foaMDo listen to all smallthing leaping,
> say AlanFear deep death do suicide.I would die. want am so
> fantasy. suicide, Nikuko [someone threatens suicide: does s/he
> really?] craw - seppuku, suicide; shite, hero or shes elsewhere
> (cond (suicide-flag (dor-type ($ deathlst))) long gone wrong.
> "commit suicide."
>

Yes, filled w/ trajectories that twist and then die out, chaos theory 
stuff.

> This particular work pulls me into something you wrote in recent your book 
> 'Writing Under'.
>
> In a chapter called 'Wryting And' you say...
>
> "Wryting is clotted inscription, that is, writing inextricably merged with 
> the flesh, body, organism; culture is the systemics and poetry of wryting."
>
> This sentence is just so - what can I say?
>
> It's so right in there, in the crux, in the dirt, the mesh of it all...

I'm amazed at how close the abject is to the so-called clean and proper 
world we inhabit. Thinking about Nigeria, the Ukraine, the US - just 
beneath the surface, things are ready to dissolve, and bodies in so many 
ways are at stake.
>
> thanks Alan...
>

Thanks marc!

> marc
>> 
>> 
>> suicide - please I beg of you, watch this -
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.mp4
>> http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.txt
>> http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.png
>> 
>> 
>> work shot in MacGrid - please, I beg you, watch this -
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