Theorizing Self: Internet Self Sculptures

 

How would cyberspace construct your identity by the info you give it?

 

A technocultural project based in postmodern social theory that uses perpetual displacement in the creation of postmodern art. (Example: "About Face" see PM Currents, p. 188).

Social constructivist view: Context is not given but produced (a key concept to understanding intertextuality, intervisuality, & intersubjectivity)

VISUALIZATION (exploration of subject/object)


(see self) Mirror (Derrida's double mirroring)
(desired self) Positionality (Derrida's
grafting)
(others see self) Perpetual Displacement (perpetually contesting sites of meaning)

INTERNET SEARCH (exploration of inclusion/exclusion=Rhizomatic webbing)
Every position defined as much by what it includes as what it excludes.

SELF-SCULPTURE (exploration of deconstructing/constructing identity)
New placement/position/identity. Identity in perpetual process of construction--not a fixed entity.Context is not given but produced (JOYCE)

 

Exploration of inclusion/exclusion: Rhizomatic webbing

Identity in perpetual process of construction--not a fixed entity

Grafting: Placement of signs in a new context

Wes Smith, 2000

Joyce Centofanti, 2000 

Mary Beth Rippel, 2000