(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