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From: John Beckmann <jbeckmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Philp Goodchild <p.goodchild@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: The Virtual Dimension
Philip
Pardon the intrusion, but I just came across your posting
on the D+G list and it captured my attention.
I write to see if you would be interested in participating
in a book/CD-ROM project entitled "The Virtual Dimension:
Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture" which I'm
currently in the midst of organizing. It will be published
by Princeton Architectural Press in the spring.
Would you be willing to contribute an unpublished essay,
(maybe a chapter from your new book) covering some of D+G's
work. Deleuze's crystal and fold concepts would be of
particular interest to architects.
I've included a brief synopsis and a list of confirmed
contributors. The deadline is July 15th but we could
adjust it if your interested in the project.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Kindest regards,
John Beckmann
architect
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THE VIRTUAL DIMENISON: Architecture, Representation and
Crash Culture
Real without being actual, ideal without being abstract.
-- Gilles Deleuze
The Virtual Dimension, is an anti-manifesto of the so
called digital revolution, and will critically examine the
relationship between emerging electronic technologies,
architecture, production, cultural theory, the body and
society's current obsession with cyberspace. The intention
is to provide an open arena/site from which to project an
interdisciplinary event of all that is digital, mediated
and prosthetic. In this sense there is no manuscript, but
rather the assemblage of loosely disseminated fragments,
critiques and tactics which are infinitely porous, and thus
represent a series of architectural/cultural thresholds and
positions.
Essays, interviews, videos, CU-SeeMe, QuickTime VR, lms,
hypertexts and images will be incorporated throughout the
project in order to create ruptures, or fissures, roughly
equivalent to the streams of consciousness in the
Burroughsian sense.
The purpose of using the multimedia platform ie. of printed
text, CD-ROM and video is to make explicit and literalize
the varying modalities, ideas and processes inherent in the
digital and virtual mediums themselves. It is through this
fusion of fuzzy aggregates that multiplicities, and the
will to virtuality (Kroker) can best be understood.
Please submit proposals, finished papers, architectural
projects and multimedia works by July 15, 1996 to VIRTUAL
c/o John Beckmann, 124 Watts Street, New York, NY
10013-0861 or E-mailed (preferred). Inquiries may be
E-mailed to jbeckmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or faxed to
212.966.3574.
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Confirmed Contributors - * indicates work received as of
May 1st.
*Mark Amerika
*Peter Anders
Andrew Benjamin
Fredrick P. Brooks, Jr.
M. Christine Boyer
*Bernard Cache
*Christopher Chesher
*Manuel Delanda
Neil Denari
*Mark Dery
Ron Eglash
Keller Easterling
Heidi Figueroa
*Diane Greco
Michael Heim
*Arthur & Marilouise Kroker
Pierre Levy
Greg Lynn
Sylvere Lotringer
Brian Massumi
William J. Mitchell
*Morphosis
Eric Owen Moss
*Marcos Novak
*Philippe Queau
Howard Rheingold
*Florian Roetzer
*Mark Poster
Peter Pran
*Michael A. Speaks
Claudia Springer
*Stelarc
Vivian Sobchack
*Mark C. Taylor
*Paul Virilio
MacKenzie Wark
and surprise guests.
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John Beckmann
Axis Mundi
124 Watts Street, New York, NY 10013
email: jbeckmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
tel: 212.966.5310 fax: 212.966.3574
