(draft) Watching and Being Watched Through Cybernetic Filters

http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~wnan/fear.html

recent project

Inspiration.( experience of derivative fear)

On the train way back from Einhoven to Rotterdam. Through the old train window covered with dust, I saw the landscape and train track moving horizontally with high speed. Every thing outside the window was blury, unclear and impossible to catch any memorable detail. I am in a passive position again: only could sit and watch. At that moment a certain type of fear is occupying me, this emotion without clear source and also hard to defined. “the fear is more terrible when it is diffuse, dispersed, not very clear; when it floats freely elsewhere, without bonds, anchors, home or a clear cause” (Zygmunt Bauman) I realized that is what we experienced every day. Imagine the train window is the cybernetic interface; the moving landscape I saw through the window is the overflowed modulated data; the viewer is “the man in control”.

watching and being watched through cybernetic filters

1.images and reality

2.cybernetic filter

3.fantasy and reality

4.social fragmentation and derivative fear

5.self- broadcast contribute to the continuous data and cybernetic filter.

6.self-generated loop

• Reference:

Regarding The Pain Of Others, Susan Sontag The work of art in the age of digital recombination, Jos de Mul Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze Liquid Fear, Zygmunt Bauman Society and its Liquid Fears, Maxi Korsta