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Subject: networks and identities From: "valéry grancher" <vgranger@imaginet.fr> Date: 10 Nov 1997 19:37:57 GMT * * * * * Networks and Identities More often identifications questions are subjected to topographicals perceptions : Persons are divided through sexuals "topoï"; and in collective conscioussness it isn't a matter of behavourial, mental and social identity. Otherwise through the new media networks, a very subtil game is starting through various transferences and identifications phenomenon. On forums we can't know who are our partners : men, women, transexuals, or everything. In this context we can't talk about collective identities, but severals hazy host are connecting, are moving, constituated by various persons who doesn't want to be known . Identity is appearing through flux, exchanges, disappearances and various games. Identity in this space built on real time is now a fluctuative fractality. The pesrpective point can't be identified as the identity point, they are pulsating. I prefer to speak about surfing alterities than about hidden identities. In this game, sexual, pleasure question are becoming an insolvent enigma miror of a new schizophrénia. These exchanges games and new spaces seem to be our world reflect, its reality . The reality has its own image, its own language and that's why sometimes we are speaking about virtual reality, but on this point we are making an error: In optical domain, virtuality is always the reality symmetry. In our field this symmetry is missing, it is an additional screen, a layer on reality: " une surréalité". When we are speaking about individuals, about others, the question about collectivity is coming. But in these media spaces, collectivity is a fractality, a nebula. We are missing for an alterity not identified. A nice and soft intoxication is felt : to be, to seem, to disapear. From this game, a suffering is born : To be the emptiness like a birth in front of language ... Text by Valery Grancher from his web project "No memory": http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory "No memory" project is developped in my solo exhibit context at the CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux in France (la galerie du musee) March 28 1997 - March 28 1998. A web installation is working there "Obsessions": http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory/data/capc.htm This project is also hosted by the Ars Electronica Center at Linz "Futurelab artists in residence" : Agust 1997 - February 1998 http://web.aec.at/futurelab/air/index.html http://wintermute.aec.at/nomemory Current project is called "Ixy" : http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory/ixy Current contribution at D*A*M: http://www.damnet.demon.nl Valery Grancher Artist Manager of Seuil Multimedia : Multimedia department of the french publishing company 'Le Seuil' 53, rue de seine 75006 Paris France phone: + 33 6 11 67 18 74 vgranger@imaginet.fr http://www.imaginet.fr