Edia's dividual - the distibuted self in digital space
excerpts from Edia; a real-time narrated media presentation by Willy Le Maitre displayed in stereographic format. 2006-11
The work details the notion of a distributed self; distinguishing an individual's body from its counterpart, the dividual. The dividual extends the self into a mesh of relations, communication, emotings. Edia exists in the topologies of information space, presented here as a visualisation of the the networked world and its aesthetics of enfoldment.
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00:00 Edia is an entity that distributes the self in a constellation of points around the globe. The points are personified by 'friends' in dialog.
00:16 the basic unit of Edia is a spherical point. one begets another.
from worlds come worlds, where none is prime.
00:36 all surfaces are covered in video.
00:46 formed by points: each possesses knowledge of the whole.
01:22 on the surface of the sphere the horizon is continuous.
01:33 the network connects all points.
01:45 our network makes us all visible to one another -- with horizon collapsed, we live inside.
02:04 within the point, space is imagined as occupying the center -- the perspective of the network.
03:03 the point emerges from an ellipse into a cylindrical passage. A network byway that connects hole to whole.
03:54 perspective is established by the eye. The eye acts as both witness and writer, encoding the seen into memories that are seeded into the cloud below it.
04:47 Edia is comprised of a network of emotives. The network has a molecular quality, its bonds of audiovisual sequences play in the emotives nodes.
05:36 Shells envelope one another, each, a dimension that influences the direction taken at the center.
05:53 At the center: direction of thought is decided. It is the result of a
complex interaction of memory, desire and the emotivational.
06:32.Possibles and Incompossibles:
forces of perception and imagination are stimulated.
The actual materializes, overwriting the cascades of
incompossibles.
07:06 While an individual is situated in a single body, its counterpart,
the dividual, is distributed to multiple bodies through communication,
emotings and associations.
07:47 frequency's value produces character that is attributed to matter
8:53. the Surrounds constitute an ambient system of influencing. An ecliptic of institutions in orbit
around us, a cycling of effects. Each of us its subject and each subject to one another.
9:46 the Surrounds boundary is a shell, beyond which, the appearances of pasts and futures, take the shape of here and now.