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Hi gh & list I don't think you understand picnolepsy and it is quite an important point, in terms of the momentary blurring of the real and the symbolic. I want to raise this issue in terms of performativity and code because I think it is important that mental health is included in all your deliberations. Why? You might ask. Because as Virilio says it is a mental matter - how we interact with screens and machines. Rehearsal of Memory (Harwood) - oh btw yr operating system won't support it anymore, so I guess that makes it a performative work... London (Harwood) exhibited in Old Media at Bristol's Arnolfini was a synthesis between Blake's poem and a computer program. The point is that in 2010 as opposed to 1996 it was a print which made you think about the symbolic and the real in terms of programming and poetry, and POLIITICS Meanwhile eating disorders and self harm abound on Tumblr 'I'll self harm if you will' etc... Artists and curators are failing young people especially in the technological sphere by not addressing the reality of screen use and abuse etc performativity is yet another distraction when it could be an apprehension of what is meant by the symbolic and the real in terms of computing Sarah -----Original Message----- From: gh hovagimyan Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 8:35 PM To: Sarah Thompson Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] March Discussion Begins: The Performativity of Code On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Sarah Thompson wrote: > My question is do we need a framing structure for psychological safety? > So that we know what is and isn't us, what is symbolic and what is real > because if we suffer momentarily from Virilio's picnolepsy then it might > be disturbing mentally? Interesting reference. I had to look it up. It seems that Virilio thinks we blank out and don't see/feel/hear/sense what we are looking at. I kinda liken this to a monkey reaching for the photo of a banana rather than the real fruit. > What does it mean 'to humanize the data space'? Do you mean to make > symbolic code fool us into losing our sense of self-space etc? Or to > reveal > what the symbolic data space is really made of By Humanize I mean that we control the how and why and method to access the data.