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Authors:		Burgess, Melinda site
Title:		carrier
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Abstract:		www.subtle.net/carrier carrier is artificial intelligence embedded in the world wide web - viral life swarming within the nervous system of our planet. carrier explores the textures of intersections rather than contrasts of oppositions, elevating invalid code in a symbiotic ecology in both the biological and virtual domains. carrier is a millennial love story, one of intimate romance between invasive virus and sentient host. carrier positions the contagious virus as a lively agent adapting in response to a changing environment, engaging with, and replicating within the receptive body. carrier draws blood from immunology and immunosemiotics, integrating the dynamic of interrelating pure codes, whether they be within the immune system or the computer operating system. The carrier project originated from my MA research in 1997 in gender, net art practice and chronic viral illness, with intent to reposition viral infection as positive biological merging with the flesh - a love story with an intelligent being, rather than the defensive medical response to invasion which sites the body as a detached battleground. carrier is an updated cyborg model for the emerging millennium, as we seek a way to culturally reposition ourselves to the dissolving natural/artificial/species divide. carrier site integrates theoretical and intimate texts, digital imagery, synthesised voice, shockwave, java script, java applets and data based interaction; with imagery sourced from medical research, insect communities, and binary coding, and includes searchable dossiers of real life experience of living with chronic viral illness, which have been contributed anonymously from the internet. Production of carrier site has been funded by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, for release in July 1999. *please note the carrier site will be under construction from December 1998 till July 1999. please email me if you require the test site address.

Burgess, Melinda. melinda@subtle.net http://www.subtle.net/carrier Melinda Burgess is an artist and writer residing in east coast Australia, who has worked online in her domain www.subtle.net, with digital image and poetic and theoretical hypertextual narrative since 1995. Her web sites, including a.land -a chaotically beautiful journey through fragmentary digital landscapes, tunnel -an exploration of the slimy arenas of cybersexual practice; and line - an elegant investigation of location, intimacy and virtual identity; continue to be widely viewed internationally. Burgess contributes texts to art and culture publications including Realtime, Readme, and Tugzine, and Media and Culture Review, is an active participant on net.art and theory mailing lists and occasionally lectures at Wollongong University on gender, virtual community and net.art. She has presented her sites at Cultural Crossroads: Ownership, Access & Identity Conference, Australia 1997; E Polar Circuit International Digital Art Conference and Workshop, Finland, 1998, and will present carrier as a work in progress at Contagion International Interdisciplinary Conference at Sydney University in early 1999. A current CV is available at http://www.subtle.net/exhibit.html


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