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

[marc garrett]

Hi Alan,

 > 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.

I think a plus side to Facebook (putting aside its evilness) is its 
visual impact, and our eyes just love looking at shapes and colours. 
Google plus does not have this element, or email lists. having said this 
I am pro email lists because of its ethical and social contexts etc…

 > 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.

yes, that would be interesting. keep me in the loop ;-)

 > 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.

Our bodies tend to remind us with a jolt —— we are not computers and 
life is not an object, but we are dying micro-systems feeding a larger 
ecosystem and this is beyond our control ;-)

wishing you well.

marc

>
> 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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