Biotopological Musings
The Reversible Destiny artists write:
This relates to an earlier post of mine on the artists Arakawa/Gins who project the "organism that persons"? Back in December 2007, Professor VJ wrote:
And what happens when one organism persons multiple actualizations in asynchronous realtime? Is that what it means to become a networked persona? It certainly feels that way while caught in the heat of dérive.
In Making Dying Illegal, the artists, who refuse to die and are busy building architectural bodies against death, tell us that the "organism that persons" is "shifting its cleaving borders that are layered so as to become that which strives to person."
Arakawa/Gins insist we resist what is being force-fed to us as inevitable. In their world, death is not destiny and there is no reason to glide in that direction. In their minds, it should simply be made illegal.
Metadata: philosophy, poetry, death, art, biology, architecture
The most advanced evolutionary and molecular biologists admit that, despite the availability to them in the early 21st century of extensive biological information databases, they know at most only between one and two percent of what contributes to and is constitutive of life, which is to say, when all is said is done, they have only the beginning of an idea as to what life – a living organism – is.Slipping outside the reductionist orb, the artists who continue modeling their "Architecture Against Death" tell us:
SCIENCE OF VIABILITY OR SCIENCE OF STAYING ALIVE OR SCIENCE OF UNENDINGNESSHow about a SCIENCE OF CREATIVITY or a SCIENCE OF CONCRESCENCE?
This relates to an earlier post of mine on the artists Arakawa/Gins who project the "organism that persons"? Back in December 2007, Professor VJ wrote:
[...] Arakawa/Gins who wax eloquent on the "biotopological" and the way we cleave:On impulse, the organism that persons actualizes an engagement with the landing-site configuration as part of its constant struggle to person. This can happen anywhere at anytime. A stroll through the open spaces of Rocky Mountain National Park, a psychodrift through Portland, a wander in Second Life (by Nameless Hyun).By definition, it is within and by means of bioscleave that all that happens does: some might wish to call bioscleave a thoroughgoing actualization, but that is not what we have found ourselves inclined to do. The sum of all that contributes to lives being led: bioscleave.Bioscleaves actualize along. They do more than "go along to get along," that is, they target a landing-site with no predetermined outcome and see where it takes them.
Desire
A Poem
Waiting to be Disseminated
into a Field of Action
where the artist-medium
shape-shifts into
counter-protocol.
Or so I just imagined/imaged (improvisationally).
A Throw of the Dice Never Abolishes Chance?
Meanwhile, what Arawaka/Gins call a landing-site configuration is something to look forward to. Our architectural bodies merge with these landing-sites (figures) so that they are computed (manipulated) into images that we are happy to hang around in, navigate through, copulate with, or otherwise coordinate our persona in. Arawaka/Gins refer to this throughout their book as becoming an organism that persons.
And what happens when one organism persons multiple actualizations in asynchronous realtime? Is that what it means to become a networked persona? It certainly feels that way while caught in the heat of dérive.
In Making Dying Illegal, the artists, who refuse to die and are busy building architectural bodies against death, tell us that the "organism that persons" is "shifting its cleaving borders that are layered so as to become that which strives to person."
Arakawa/Gins insist we resist what is being force-fed to us as inevitable. In their world, death is not destiny and there is no reason to glide in that direction. In their minds, it should simply be made illegal.
Metadata: philosophy, poetry, death, art, biology, architecture
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