>>can you elaborate more specifically on the links between particular spatia=
l
>>phenomena and the ideas of inhabiting nothingness, psychic rootlessness an=
d
>>falling outside of ourselves?
>
>Bracha
>
>Yes, I think that we can sense this clearly on a basic level in the present
>forum. At the same time that the computer seems to bring us together, it
>helps keeps us very far apart. Without a very clearly defined problem, the
>bubbles of dialogue tend to spin off in an ever widening circle of
>directions (this may be positive, but it usually amounts to everybody
>tooting there own horn into a vacuum). I also think that it's ironic, that
>we have fallen into so much jargon ridden speak defined in such mechanical
>terms, that the psychological aspects of the loss of spatial articulations,
>the collapse of perspective, and so on is of little interest.
Yes, thank you John, for your response. I have been reading postings on the
list the past week as I have been working on a project, collecting one
hundred stones from one hundred sites within a one hundred mile radius of a
specific Southwestern city. In the past five days I have covered about 800
miles of terrain, collecting rocks, mapping my travels via a GPS unit for
exact latitude and longitude cooridinates. When I come back to my hotel
room(s) at night, and look at my email with the Blast dialogue about space
and terrain, I haven't had a clue of how to respond. I love computer space,
but it is very compressed compared to the sense of space one has looking at
the ancient shoreline of Lake Cahuilla high up on a mountain above the
Salton "Sea"'s engineering disaster. The past becomes theater for the drama
of this present place. I think of a place which touches tangent to a
primary geographical landmark of my life, the road. This steely line of
flight is a way of locating oneself, of telling time. The road, in
cyberspace becomes the thread. It is interesting that it is refered to as a
thread and not a road. Thread, webs, nets, etc. remind me of domesticity
rather than nomadism: trails, paths, roads, etc. The language which we are
creating for this cyberspace derives from an internal sence of space, I
think. Yet, there is incredible vastness in these two types of space which
are very different from one another. Both are vast, both are difficult to
map and comprehend, and they are of different orders of somatic experience.
Maybe we are trying to map this new terrain with words first before images.
=46rom what I have seen I agree with you that
> VRML is neat, it's cool, but when all is said and down, there
>still isn't that much to salivate about, because of the nagging bandwidth
>problems. So where stuck with these very minimal interventions and some
>absurdly simplistic "chromed" images and/or objects we can twirl around.
the visual mapping tools are less developed than the jargon. Is this a
technology issue or a creative one?
Ever onward,
Eve Andr=E9e Laram=E9e
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