2023
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Essay on a Ghosted Body is an essayistic device that consists of two boxes covered with basic meshes of faces for avatars on the Second Life platform and a table to read the essay in, covered with a pixellated digital skin texture.
Inside the boxes there are two types of cards: on the smaller ones, functions of the body are inscribed (such as 'digest,' 'cry,' 'chew,' etc.). The larger cards contain various texts and fragments that explore the organic body confronted with its simulation: the avatar.
I was inspired by the hours I had spent playing The Sims and making all my friends so we could do chores in virtual life (leaving unattended my actual chores). Avatars in general seem to me like concepts that I still want to explore because they hold many dimensions - they let us experiment with a body that feels no pain or lethargy, is not threatened by the outside world if they walk around. But they’re also embodiments of machines, examples of bodies that never get tired, and so they are perfect workers.
i was raised in a city created for tourists and rampant consumption where i learned how to write in between the margins where i learned to enjoy the symptom of liminality where i learned to enjoy flashy devotion, whenever im using a computer i feel so much freedom, i could do whatever i want, write wherever i want, create things out of thin air, alienated, we learn to love the tonality of the life we lived when we grew up, that’s why i love airports and empty malls and anything quiet and devoid of movement, i have learned to love freedom more than anything else and that is just the way it is