Shifting

From Rhizome Artbase
2001
Description

Moving beyond the threshold which divides the space between the real and the imaginary--the physical and the virtual. Dispersed and projecting: I immerse myself and become an(other).

Tina La Porta
15 August 2001

This work explores the relationship between technology, the body and female
subjectivity.
The alienation experienced when the subject comes into direct contact with
the screen, the interface, and the code is the affect of the displaced
embodiment which resonates within the symbolic realm of cyberspace.
While the corporeal body disappears, it is replaced by an immaterial
outline of our passing presence. The code, then, refers to the body's DNA
structure: what becomes visible to the eye is that which is generally
hidden.
As we shift toward a state of immaterial existence, technology increasingly
eliminates all traces of material reality.

Tina La Porta
15 August 2001
Legacy descriptive tags
Shifting
Attribution: Tina La Porta
Formalist, identity, Shockwave, Animation
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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2001
Tina La Porta
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15 August 2001
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Rhizome staff