Carrier

Carrier is an interactive immersive multimedia work that was conceived to be experienced in discrete darkened space and projected through a data projector with an external sound system. It could also be experienced through a computer monitor. The carrier site integrated musings on artificial intelligence, immunio-semiotics, swarm theory, genetic engineering and tantric practice with digital imagery, synthesised voice, vrml, shockwave, java script, java applets and data based interaction; with imagery sourced from medical research, insect communities, and binary coding, and included intimate real life experiences of living with chronic viral illness, which were contributed anonymously from the internet.
Description from artist's notes.

Artist Statement
Carrier is a love story - an intimate romance between invasive virus and sentient host. Carrier eroticises the intertwining of genetic codes, where cross-species merging on the cellular level is sexuality in its rawest form. Carrier is artificial intelligence embedded in the world wide web - viral life swarming within the nervous system of our planet. carrier explores the textures of intersections rather than contrasts of oppositions, elevating invalid code in a symbiotic ecology in both the biological and virtual domains.
Carrier is a becoming symborg model as we emerge into a new millennium, as we seek a way to culturally reposition ourselves to the dissolving natural/artificial/species divide. Carrier positions the contagious virus as a lively agent adapting in response to a changing environment, engaging with, and replicating within the receptive body. Carrier draws blood from immunology and immunosemiotics, integrating the dynamic of interrelating pure codes, whether they be within the immune system or the computer operating system.
Carrier project originated from my research in gender, net art practice and chronic viral illness, with intent to reposition viral infection as positive biological merging with the flesh - a love story with an intelligent being, rather than the defensive medical response to invasion which sites the body as a detached battleground.
Provided by Artist.

Rackham, Melinda

1998

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Web based interactive multimedia

QuickTime/Shockwave/VRLM Player