data made flesh
something i started writing for dxarts 200, didn't like, edited, posted here because it's more appropriate for here. also, data-made or data space made?
On Osmose by Charlotte Davies: I was drawn to the dual simulacrum of the natural world and cyberspace. Davies does not draw a line between the "real world" crafted by Osmose and the digital, computational imagery depicted in her work. I think that is highly speculative as to the future of the world and space. Not space as in outer space, but space in the way Heidegger wrote about it—space as a relationship created by subjectivity. How does information flow in post-human space, and through more advanced virtual reality technology, how will it be depicted? That, to me, is one of the outcomes of Osmose. The work depicts a semiotic cyberspace. One that is a simulation both in the literal sense and in the Baudrillardian sense in how it serves to provide a degree of reality to the world we experience when we take off the VR headset. Osmose is a world of signs, grids, and information rather than atoms, life, and spirit. Do you know what signs are? Read Barthes.
I could be misreading Heidegger. Sorry for not mentioning Plant; I still haven’t read Zeroes and Ones. GOODBYE!
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/osmose/images/8/
