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MEDIA+SPACE New Media Gallery :: Yonsei University :: Seoul, Korea ::

Alan Sondheim :: Avatar of Excess
An exhibition of video work and texts.

Exhibition: Wed June 11  Fri June 20th
Artist will be present via Second Life at the
opening Wed. June 11th 1pm



condensed S Korea online SL performance text
with Sandy Baldwin and Baruch Gottlieb

Alan Sondheim is a unique figure in contemporary cyber culture. A 
hyper-prolific artist, poet, and critic, Sondheim produces dozens of new works 
every week and publishes these in a variety of venues from conferences to 
galleries to Second Life to the numerous mailing lists he inhabits.

His online persona and his work are utterly symbiotic; his language straddles 
the edge of coherence between the machine language of code and the global 
lingua franca.  English is unique in that it is used by 100% of the computers 
of the world as well as by a significant section of human society.  Sometimes 
it is hard to tell if Sondheim's work is created by a human or by an automaton.

Alan Sondheim's use of language in his oeuvre exemplifies the infrastructural 
actuality of English today.  Often repetitive, railing away on a tangent, 
riddled with codes and surging with automatic energies, Sondheim evokes the 
perverse vitality of the proto-cyborg consciousness of our age and it's obscene 
hyperproduction.

Human forms appear as avatars in Sondheim's videos only to be corrupted, 
smashed and smeared by irrepressible surges of information, rendering palpable 
the fragility of human meaning in the age of self-perpetuating automatic 
processes, the masochistic ecstasies of the human body at the mercy of it's 
machines.
- Baruch Gottlieb

http://gallery.yonsei.ac.kr/

[20:00]  Wirxli Flimflam is Online
Man Michinaga Gesture New missing from database.
/clap Connecting to in-world Voice Chat...
Connected
[20:01]  /whistle [20:02]  Offline
[20:37]  sandy Taifun [20:39]  Inta Twine [20:40]  T
Taifun: My avatars! little people!
I have moved into the interior of  avatars...
avatars speak with a thousand voices. Mon
poupees.
DO WE NOT BREATHE AS ONE PERSON? ARE HUMAN?
murmur constantly, you can hear them
just beneath surface, in my heart, gasps air, dolls
Twine: hi
They run around
everywhere, underfoot. will play song, aire, jig or
rondelay!
[20:41]  [20:42]  fifty industrialized nations incincerated 250000
Iraqis ARMED POLITICS ANNIHILIZATION science baby, its camera on
red pepper boiling vinegar teach marks PHILOSOPHY
OF VIRTUAL BEDROOM AVATAR immortal space sacred heater language train
pet
MACHINE rudding odors sweat vaginal semen ova
decompositions bacteria vegetation and hummingbirds sparrows flies
mites "i detest her because i know well" imitate her" curse felt"
natyasatrotpatti: mythical origin work
[20:43]  You begin understand that not all are
bots expert systems some symptoms as am
coursing trapped blood, flush spirit
vaporized, substitute for bodypart another, apparatus obstinancy,
prick
THE SURFACE! SEX! SHADOWS! ELEMENTS!
PINK MUFFINS! COUCH EARTH! DUCK LIPS! MANDRAKES!
small creature half-hidden seaweed
gleaming brown drag undertow hermit crab shell smelled moist ebb
doorway
Well, there's no more it, his writing avatar
discourse itself getting stale. He's taken bend
which trundles bundles towards future; we're
there carrying than our share avatar's, where there, so heard
Just like those pirouettes, if were body
at center them. Her skirt kept flying up, was nothing
SQUEAK forever now hold your peace; this
life, do lease any other, left,
preksagrhalasksana: characteristicis playhouse different parts
eyes corpse light color nose remains when their unreality has been
demonstrated
rangadevatapujana: worship deities connected
stage
upangavidhana: gestures minor limbs such eyballs eyebrows cheeks lower
lip chin mouth
becomes eye longer
stimulation retina world declares odorless song wind
trees
machine: undoes belt buckle him, finds
right diagram support weight, tongue, zone, other
love
MOUTH LETS GO CHAINS SENTENCES, RAMPLES,
GIGGLES, TONGUES SPREAD WET OUT OVER LIPS, LEAKS, COLLAPSES, MELTS, HIS
FINGERS
gave new Life Avatar Body moves
would move had File called God
{avatars backed, back infinite
space}.
digital sublime, spacl playe}
imitating real-life people right, imitatin avatars.
what , well, these torn
apart, By What May AsK?
refuse moon-bay, moon-bay.  avatars, (digital)
within sublime; backed
root elsewhere
The disappearance branch hardened rock
occasional  artifacts.
itself, image-avatar, ghost. ghost travels through anything course;
coordinates
attempting escape vectors result avatar-work led 15:47:47 There
constructed
motion capture  equipment 15:48:08 images laser scanning
check out Love War, Avatar, Cyborg, Experimental conferences.
sublime
backs against wall space; nowhere left go.
another dead avatar. ok you're hearing
an imitation 78 record created event very low
frequency
something head pieces did while ago - but excusable! went  somewhere,
said
something!
beginning transparency, wizard
listening-posts MOOs example. Here we are, virtual
becoming-virtual still.
Given danced-to-infinity motion-capture
second=life quasi-avatar  tethered somewhat distanced
image 'break through' private  barriers
course consequence
help. 16:04:35 want explore 'body-avatar' issues
tobother less! 16:07:11 dancers live yes 29-Jan-2007 16:07:18 In fact
they fly it. takenpart apart Sound wood wire: alpine zither:
[20:44]
ritual-objects-insignia-power-substitute-spiritual-satellite-enchanted-l
ove-exposure-regulative-transaction-corruption-norm
absurd linkage VOLUPTUOUS SHOCK VIGOR BODY FRAME "TREE" "SEA" "SKY" "I"
AWAY phallocratic mach bullshit rights WIT NONSENSE
RICOCHET HEART CLANDESTINE NIBBLES ocean illuminated plastic box motor,
tiny
metallize starched nurse uniform wanton hands
liquify vaporize atmospheric electricity markers lust muddies turgid
idols
"My leashed, logical
thought, protocols thought; it's wonder think
al
One cannot reach farther thinking one's reach, come  closer control
release, dissipation. Enter reality     world, suffused
sound.
pirouetpart cloth wire held suspension creating perfect framework
tabla/ture combination  dialog:  Collapse options
acquire baody others blood milk
urine shit face value social universal perversion contract law
coordinate
field
heels depilated legs job musculature
buildt gym scar liquid hand movement man woman remediations,
mediations, projectivities,
introjectivities, phenomenologies, histories, mechanics, Extruded
intruded (upon) body: cleansed bodies continuous middle-eastern 'war'
armored imaginary journeys  (Rhine,
England); sexualized bodies:
fondly animal fur feathers dank hummus flake
caress fabric silk leather seesaw horse hump transact mire
ossify
o avatar, rise midst maelstrom, sadness
cobalt plutonium uranium radium seriously, covers pain completion,
yours argon xenon neon, whirl me infinnnnitude drugs
file sex fuck suck cum
knife skin watch solo sexatar watch.
spectre doll faerie wraithe hobgoblin
troll tengu kappa presence
stitch suture binding closing damming holding
velvet cotton wool "Consider next smearing skin.\n";
shades avatars-- precognition behavior
collision transparent interpenetration Over Lord 1      Quon: tone
war... Wings
creak, sound beginning.          (Subtitle)
Haruka: "Why blue?" That's wondering.     Ayato stops turns toward Har
future Net, it attains state _seamless reality,_ melding real
disturbances way tending _psychosis,_ interweaving realities, respon-
sibilities claim
often lure seduction among here relates Lacanian objet a,
deferal....
Re: Manipulated Chat ...         [-] Avatars,
models, performers, d...    perfor...
ruptured mess banged one
maybe fucked case whatever disappeared
coagulating limpets seas jellies
made, women, sounded,
resonated, each every protocol, site open
winds
you've before, over again, repetition goal delibery interval...
bring about semblance face,
lineaments mouths, speaking elsewhere, sides things
criminalization society = transactions portions feed decay
protodocument libertinage rules outcries screams unnatural acts
after-image liquefy
crime shortcircuit dissipate thickness passion trigger calculate
PEFORATED LOBES EARS NOSTRILS ARMS TUSKS BEAKS CLAWS PLUMES SHELLS
PATHS BLOOD FEAST
hardness bones rods collapse secretions belly
giggling jelly swamps fetishize solidify sweating belts boots
powdered
male milk-sap LIFE FLUID EXCESS PUMP fluid
conduity neuter identity self hunt economy dyad eat wife-force
co-
48]  sicipant
occupies screen represents (virtual) constituted written
RAVINE CUT fang graft trench flat postural
diagrammatics thrust torsion engine grammar paradigm eliminations jeans
motorcycle
margins, slippages, constitutions, constructs,
emergences "depths" software hardware, blockages flows
only taking account, well surface manifestations possible comprehend
subjectivity
These develop limits margins program, reveal substructures/protocols
violate
dialogs
OOH AHH YOU AAH YOUR YOURS consider _projection self_ appearance
various applications
semiotic comic witness extreme pleasure speech
reduction crushed conspiracy integral monsters torso split big
brains
We look ruptures by
characters resonating interfering configuration files
Avatars always disturbances, irruptions
language, lang- uage portending _the raveling existence essence
vaseline-coated lens streets orchid
limb meter possessive handgun GIMME SAY AM DYING remaining suspended
audiophiles app arounds bio blogs awk biomes  tion tr
exe everglades
empathetic encapsulations episteme
extasis entropic extensivity fantasm externality
[20:45]  vectored human
define organism infinitely
repairable
don't listen avatar-man. dream-woman.
dream-woman avatar-man contaminated. building condemned.
package: / knives. prims
cut.
talks. inside he says. transformed early version 'outt'
blue construct-space outt-structure.
avatar-video avatar-performance content degree.
sukara, dakshinanila, nandiskandhardhara, dhurya,
prakata, pritvardhana, aparajita, sarvasattva, govinda, adhrita
prefer small, seeping, peripeheral,
marginal, scattered words
sites, domains, emanations, emissions, interwoven sharing coagulated
ego/s, matrices, languages, bodies.
break down here, use
me? absjure, abjure moments ?
52]  [20:48]  words, drops say drizzle
everything moment you, mmmm... matrix, mother, maternal, forth
announces edge frame dialog, carried forth...
times smooth us, bits bytes, protocls
lost smoothing functions traced across peripheries, [20:49]  [20:51]
construction near edge-space. world.
anorectic
without semi-geodesic paralleling
i'm becoming cannoarde)andy [20:52]  [20:53]  space}
tacit knowledge electronic Every symbol ligament avatar; referent
gesture; gesture procures body; Kamishibai, idols, PlayKiss
Nikuko, Meat-Girl, (among others) 'emanation'
wish home making computer with.
avoid swords.  swords
make angry.
avatar-meat  representation uncaptured remembering origins scars <
ancer ancer/avatar ancer/ancer ancer/igital
igital ancer.
Taifs
[21:2
[21:23]  (US) congress meeting SL
Plus: student should FIGHT art
[21:24]  Wish there.
[21:25]  appear erasures also visible, letters disappearing reverse.
5]  $thing begging object number
#75438.
"one one, line alone, typing Control-d
done.\n";
$name calls $a[$gen1] $noun[$non], hungered,
things.  $prep[$pre] $a[$gen], $a[$diff], $[$gen],
$str?
system("touch .trace; rev rope >> .trace");
system("rm rope");
"Your inscription finished, thing.", "\n\n" 3 $g;
dark dreams, enough soft limbs, mine...
matrix saves ending, pureness salvaging spaces...
stick-like _anime_ figures work,
distributed authorships anatomies.
[21:26]  siteor This gets started. Could push
unruptured catastrophic edges
Furious flight  slammed members-only
barriers. raw deal equally speed.
llnhx 2.2.6.::attributions Devour Blue
Nattributions Brought Forth lntarn$l karnals, bhckats pf mpdhlas,
Attempt grapple ungrapple Death Star Galleon
(s0): h boarding Flying Dutchy (f0) Dutc
[21:27]  scale "beyond" scale.
visual part total project.
[21:28]  drives appears
Autopilot canceled
[21:29]  so: re-inscriptions re-inscription lived
Alan: laptop performances
sort theoretical/artistic amalgams
enter Alan's neuroses performance
[21:31]  THANKS!
thank alan
CAn't get stop heheh
ok. lunch tomorow.
thanks interesting brief

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