Temporal Spasms or, See You Tomorrow in Kiribati!

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Temporal Spasms or, See You Tomorrow in Kiribati!

"Temporal spasms: in a world where tele-presence and telerobotics are no longer just the ingredients of science fiction novels or utopian visions but features taken for granted in our everyday lives, the very con- cepts of time, space, movement, and velocity must be renegotiated. In the global omnipresence produced

by today’s digital technologies, experienced time no longer follows a linear order of successive moments.

Rather, it becomes, in the words of Paul Virilio, “a system of representation of a physical world where

future, present, and past become interlined figures of underexposure, exposure, and overexposure.”1 Throughout the last decade (remember: for most of us the Internet is only ten years old!), artists have systematically explored the perceptual, narrative, and poetic possibilities opened up by the global environment produced by new technologies of communication. In a world brimming with digital information, we have moved beyond the age when machines are seen primarily as extensions of the muscular system. Today’s technologies are methods of extending the nervous system beyond the traditional confines of the human body. Occasionally they seem capable of altering the very core of experience: the perception of a continuous flow

of events across time."
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