Nadia wrote on
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:20:23 EDT
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>I love what you say about have a beautiful psychology. As one
goes "out-of-body" by going on line, all that is visible (other
than a typeface) is one's psyche. Sure we can go to a website,
look at a picture, and sometimes the beauty inside is reflected
outside. But. Too many times ugly people have beautiful skins,
and they show their "true colors" on a list forum or in posts...
or a person who seems frumpish and drab in person may have Beautiful
Emotions and lovely thoughts, images...words flowing as an
online entity... this "inside out" approach is what first fascinated
me about meeting people thru the net.<
Thank you for your thoughts on this subject.
In the talk I gave at the recent Alcor Technology Conference,
I repeated a phrase several times which I recently put in a large
digital image which now pillars over my studio. "alphabetical
letters arranged into words written in strings of algorythmic
codes." This phrase is taken out of the following 2-paragraph
taken from my talk:
"Many of my current friends, I’ve never met. Most of my communications
are alphabetical letters arranged into words written in strings
of algorythmic codes. Most of the time I don’t know what my friends
look like, or what they are feeling. Feelings are sometimes difficult
to express in written words for fear we may come off weak or
soft, vulnerable or naive.
"When I think of our culture, I see it as a body of electronically
connected data filtering messages into its appendages. Out into
the capillaries of culture, our technology has become far more
exacting and more robust than our biological bodies. Our biological
bodies are far too inadequate to keep up with our ideas and the
new landscapes we venture. From the telegraph to telecommunications,
from the Net into Space, it is no longer just the written symbol—the
word—being transported, we are the new transportees."
Excerpts are located at http://www.natasha.cc/techtalk.htm
Natasha
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