Re: <documenta X><blast> representation

Viktor A.Mazin (ppkab@dux.ru)
Wed, 9 Jul 1997 02:23:05 +0400

Jordan Crandall wrote 8.07.97.20:56:
"What does the image,
which now becomes so deep that it incorporates perspectives within its
very body, 'see', and what are its modes of visualization, if they can
be called that? The very notion of representation as such fails to
capture these 'deep images', which 'look back' and harbor social
networks."

Technological extensions give us possibility to see very distant,
invisible, inaccessible objects. Actually we don't see, but re-constructe
images. We use the same "modes of visualisation" to reperesent
dragon-fly' s vision or the surface of Mars. We create Golems of
Con-sciousness, techno-ideological membranes, servitors of
powerful anthropic principle. Gulliver's travels could be a
metaphore for the fishing 'deep images' in the harbor of
social networks.

Olessia Tourkina