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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 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 is a love story - an 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.
carrier project originated from my 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 site integrates theoretical texts,
digital imagery, synthesised voice, vrml, shockwave, java script,
java applets and data based interaction; with imagery
sourced from medical research, insect communities, and
binary coding, and includes intimate real life
experiences of living with chronic viral illness, which have
been contributed anonymously from the internet.
carrier site production has been funded by the Australia Council for
the Arts, for release in July 1999. |
Rackham, Melinda.
melinda@subtle.net
http://www.subtle.net
Melinda Rackham 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 carrier - viral symbiosis in the virtual and biological domains;
a.land - a poetic journey through fragmentary digital landscapes; tunnel - the exploration
of the slimey arenas of
cybersexual practice; and line - an elegant investigation of location,
intimacy and virtual identity; continue to be widely viewed.
Rackham is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Virtual Media at COFA, UNSW; contributes
texts to art and culture publications; is an active participant on net.art and theory
mailing lists; and occasionally lectures on gender, virtual community and net.art.
A current CV is available at http://www.subtle.net/exhibit.html
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