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| [Nettime-bold] VNS Matrix Artist Statement 94 and the Triple Temptation ofCircuit Boy |
About VNS Matrix V N S M A T R I X artists' statement VNS Matrix is a group of women artists who are committed to redefining the role and image of women in art and technology. Both as makers and users of computer-based artforms, women are significantly under represented. However, in the world of computer graphics women are very much present in easily recognizable forms as they are in traditional cinema and advertising, that is, objectified, stereotyped and fetishized. VNS Matrix aim to subvert this traditional image by creating characters and representations of women who are strong, defiant and active. VNS Matrix are working primarily in the areas of computer-based technologies including graphics, animation, multimedia and, in future, virtual reality systems. Although these advanced systems hold the potential for the creation of entirely new forms of art and communication the cultural products arising from the use of new technologies are often conceptually barren. Form has rapidly become cliched as computer artists have focussed on technical challenges rather than structural and conceptual possibilities such as the development of new forms of narrative and representation. VNS Matrix believe that it is vitally important for new technologies to be used in a critical fashion, and that women have access to the production and consumption of these exciting new tools. VNS Matrix actively engages in the international cross- disciplinary debate surrounding technological development, cultural issues and gender representation. The group's current project is the development of an interactive (art) computer game entitled ALL NEW GEN. The hero of the game, Gen, is the antithesis of pallid and predictable computer game characters such as Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Leisure Suit Larry. All New Gen is terminator of the moral code, saboteur of Big Daddy Mainframe. Her mission - to subvert and corrupt cyberspace. VNS Matrix are cyberfeminists with attitude. Their ironic and witty art interjects a critical edge into the arena of art and new technologies, imagining and imaging alternative future worlds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About All New Gen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th April, 1995 from difference engine 1995 The Triple Temptation of Cicuit Boy ALL NEW GEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Triple Temptation Of Circuit Boy In the domains of the abstract Circuit Boy was an easy seduction. Boy had been designed for pleasure. He was the penultimate pleasure model, made for merging. Hard and abundant. Pleasingly shy. Full of holes and protuberances. Cunt draped a spline around his chrome rendered torso, talked dirty equations, algorithmically slid up and down on his double density, read only memory (which was full of adolescent yearnings). She, slime incarnate, relentlessly manipulated and extended his many parameters. Artfully, together, they postponed the moment of full G-slime transference, rerouting urgent visceral requests to deeper levels of source codes. The Mistress of Detestable Pleasure draped a spline around his wire frame. Her archives of pain and desire were immense. She rendered him senseless with her infinite promise of corruption. He allowed himself to be dragged outside the moral code, all percepts ignored, forgotten. He was zero to her triple cunt intelligence. Their boundaries merged forming new objects. She mapped his changing parameters, calculating the pleasure options. She was object-oriented desire to his subject. It was in this way that Circuit Boy learnt the rewards of willing submission. Abject feigned sleep, her thighs slightly apart, her left breast uncovered. She favoured a non-linear approach. Her pathways were subtle. Circuit Boy tended her biological components, practising ethereal modes of convergence in his down time. He partitioned his RAM, slowing his response times to match her requirements. She was highly encrypted, he became expert at decoding. Their surveillance narratives grew so dense it was impossible to know who was in control. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold