From root at xname.cc Fri Sep 25 12:49:21 2009 From: root at xname.cc (xname) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:49:21 +0200 Subject: [dev] Surpassing an intrinsic dichotomy Message-ID: >From the Virtual Entity Journal: http://virtualentity.org/journal Surpassing an intrinsic dichotomy Athens, September 25th 2009 The entire structure of the Virtual Entity project, and the entire structure of the digital world, and the whole system of oppositions, and the fancy PhD-bubble, the entire whole world seems to be talking about a (fantastic) dualistic composition, that of 'this' and 'that', as in Practice and Theory, or Software and Philosophy, or Content and Form, Junction and Dis-junction, including the semiotic attempt to learn from the process of connecting the act of making sense in itself to the symbol as a pre-determined array of strata -out of humanity. Following this ancestral structure, that of the zeros and ones which we nowadays find incredibly fulfilling - as if confusing an alphabet with the spell - this research on virtual life and immaterial consciousness, this quest on digital filaments and the naturality of manufactures, all that, which I named Virtual Entity, was nailed and confined to a narrow vision, that of a software developing itself silently, and compulsively, while a totally separated theory talks, phantasmatically walking on another sphere. Yet it was never the case: the development was in fact a continuous dialog between the two sides, a rhythmic triggering of doubts, questions and answers transduced from one vertex to the other. So how to declare definitely obsolete any distinction, entangling these two dimensions in such a way that, not differently from the Cartesian representation of x and y on a planar schema, this theoretical software can unfold its entire, 3dimensional constitution? How do we wander through the marvellous garden of executable logic, if not singing a requiem* for human culture? (Please read carefully the upcoming releases ) * requiem: musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the soul of the dead. -- From root at xname.cc Wed Sep 30 18:35:44 2009 From: root at xname.cc (xname) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:35:44 +0200 Subject: [dev] [Fwd: [p09] Editorial Decision on Project] Message-ID: <25a6966a291073b707d4ea07f70f6c2c.squirrel@tuxic.nl> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [p09] Editorial Decision on Project From: "Piksel Team" Date: Wed, September 30, 2009 12:52 am To: "Eleonora Oreggia" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eleonora Oreggia: Congratulations, your submission Virtual Entity has been accepted for presentation at Piksel09 which is being held 19-22 november 2009 in Bergen. Please confirm as soon as possible if you will be able to attend the festival by answering this mail. You will then soon be contacted by our producer for further details on the proceedings. Also, if you haven't already, please feel free to join the piksel at piksel.no mailinglist - http://piksel.no/mailman/listinfo/piksel Thank you and looking forward to your participation in Piksel09. Piksel Team piksel09 at piksel.no ________________________________________________________________________ Piksel :: Piksel09 http://piksel.no/ocs http://www.piksel.no --