Virtual Dissolution
http://www2.derby.ac.uk/dmarc/digital-hybridity/tags/110/
Parcours* – A Personal Survey through the Digital Wilderness
Gudrun Bielz
Within the context of my PhD research for ‘Arctificial Territories’ I will conduct a personal survey of the following areas, utilising blogging, writing, audio and video sketches; dialogue, monologue and epilogue – a hybridologue:
Hybridity in the digital jungle – artificial ideas and networking – postmodern and transhuman ideas – multiple realities, personalities and places. Hybrid arts.
New normalities and psychotherapy for computing powers. Obsessional thoughts and compulsive activities by human, post-human and artificial entities. Immediacy and simulation.
The race for life. A race for utopia and dystopia, hyperreal events and hybrid space – liquid and wearable space – extensions – extensions – embodied and disembodied fantasies – posthuman scenarios – digital fetishes – a fun fair through a parallel universe of ‘authentic’ virtual worlds.
THE HEART OF THE WORLD. Do you listen to its beat? This is hybrid life.
*Parcour: the activity or sport of running through an area, typically in an urban environment, using acrobatic techniques to negotiate obstacles (Oxford English Dictionary)
