Thursday, December 01, 2005
Performing Online
From Lisa Nakamura's essay Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet:
“Cyberspace is the newest incarnation of the idea of national boundaries. […] The term ‘cyberspace’ participates in a topographical trope which, as Stone points out, defines the activity of on-line interaction as taking place within a locus, a space, a ‘world’ unto itself. This second ‘world,’ like carnival, possess constantly fluctuating boundaries, frontiers, and dividing lines which separate it from both the realm of the ‘real’ (that which takes place off line) and its corollary, the world of the physical body which gets projected, manipulated, and performed via on-line interaction.”
"Since the 'real' identities of the interlocutors at Lambda are unverifiable (except by crackers and hackers, whose outlaw manipulations of code are unanimousy construed by the Internet's citizens as a violation of both privacy and personal freedom) it can be said that everyone who participates is 'passing,' as it is impossible to tell if a character's description matches a player's physical characteristics"
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"The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed . . . the deed is everything." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Iain” (Idyllic Architecture and Information Networks)
WARNING: We are a group of new media art students interested in the transposition of physical, informational and social architecture. In December 2005, we created a series of profiles on the social networking site MySpace for members of The Glass Chain, a group of German architects who envisioned an ideal society that would be united by a new model of physical and community architecture. Their use of a cryptic language, adoption of pseudonyms, and the exchange of words and pictures among a set of members are aspects that resonate with the structure of Internet communities like MySpace. The Glass Chain “friends” interacted in the MySpace network for a number of weeks, and may be continuing to do so at this time.
The Glass Chain “impersonators” are only one possible intervention of this kind. We encourage you to create your own fake profiles of intellectual interest, infiltrate the social spaces of the Internet, and help re-imagine its architecture. The Glass Chain is a communal project; you may participate, in addition, by adopting their identities:
gmail accounts for the architects:
bruno.taut@gmail.com
max.taut@gmail.com
walter.a.gropius@gmail.com
hermann.finsterlin@gmail.com
adolf.behne@gmail.com
wenzel.hablik@gmail.com
carl.krayl@gmail.com
paul.goesch@gmail.com
hans.luckhardt@gmail.com
wassili.luckhardt@gmail.com
glassfan69@gmail.com (glass groupie)
The password for all MySpace profiles is "myspace1"
The password for all Gmail accounts is "myspace"
The login name and password for this blog is "glasschain" and "myspace1" respectively.
