Inside/Outside: P'nim/Panim
I constructed a console in which a participant seated in front of a monitor places her finger in a plethysmograph, which measures internal body states by monitoring blood flow, while under the gaze of a video camera. Digitized information about her internal mind/body processes triggers changes in the image of herself that she sees on the monitor. She sees her face changing color, stretching, elongating, extending, rotating, or replicating in response to her feelings about seeing herself changing.
Alexenberg referencing Roy Ascot1 : Roy Ascot proposes that just as the development of interactive media replaced the cult of the object d’art with process-based artforms in the 20th century, future artforms will be dialogues between dry pixels and wet molecules. Art of the future will explore “moistmedia,” the interspace between the dry world of virtuality and the wet world of biology in which spiritually numinous artforms will emerge. These new artforms will be conspicuously different from art of earlier periods.
1. Roy Ascott, Art, Technology, Consciousness: mind@large (Bristol:UK: Intellect Books, 2000).
1 comments:
I was pleased to see your reference to my biofeedback interactive artwork at MIT. I made the first version of it in 1980 and first exhibited it in a museum in the 1988 show "LightsOROT:Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age" that I created with Otto Piene.
It's discussed in a more contemporaty context in my new book "The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age" (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2011).
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