nascent bodies

Sketch Studies for a Drawing....vestigial anatomies/vicarious prosthesis

sketch studies for a chronogram-esque drawing, attempting to coalesce futurist ideas of portraying the body in space/time, notions of visceral surfaces and the contrast  of anatomical and cartesian geometries. It is also hoped that the drawing will allude to ideas of 'vicarious prosthesis' that generate around limbs, appendages -potentially evoking Mike Webb's Suitaloon, or other 'mobile/personal architectures'.

vicarious skins and vestigial bodies........models

'inlucent transubstance of flesh' (cruz)

hyper-dermis........studies; experiments; sketches

Diaphanous Skins and blurs mk II sketches

Etymology of an Idea.....

An etymological breakdown of the primary terms/titles/canticles used thus far, to clarify one's own agenda, suggest apparent trajectories or offer tangential potentials.....

Vestigial Anatomies & Vicarious Prosthesis

continue reading....

Diaphanous Skins and blurs

skin: The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.

epidermis: Anatomy. the outer, nonvascular, nonsensitive layer of the skin, covering the true skin or corium from Latin meaning surface skin and Greek epidermís 'upper skin', Greek dérma meaning skin.


'....one has to understand 'flesh' as an extended meaning of skin and, accordingly, skin not as surface or membrane , but rather like ' a place of minglings', as the English theorist Steve Connor has put it. This implies a sense of three-dimensionality that is manifested through the materiality of skin in which embedded matter, along with a variety of wrinkles, bulges and orifices mark their presence......' (Marcos Cruz, Synthetic Neoplasms, AD Nov/Dec 08)


hypodermis_hyperdermis_cyberdermis



hands. iterations.....moving through space/time

#1

#2

(some) maps for these territories........

somatological slipstreams....photographs mk II

'Movement vision is sight turned proprioceptive, the eyes reabsorbed into the flesh through a black hole in the geometry of empirical space and a gash in bodily form. Vision is a mixed mode of perception registering both form and movement. For it to gain entry into the quasi-corporeal, the realm of pure relationality, it must throw aside form in favour of unmediated participation in the flesh.'

Brian Massumi

Somatological: pertaining to somatology

_ the branch of anthropology that deals with human physical characteristics.

Slipstreams:

_the airstream generating reduced air pressure and forward suction directly behind a rapidly moving vehicle

Slippage:
_The act or an instance of slipping, especially movement away from an original or secure place.
_The amount or extent of slipping.
_A decline in level, performance, or achievement.
_Loss of motion or power because of slipping

somatological slipstreams....photographs

'the action of energy in the midst of matter......an extreme vision of reality, where everything is merely a transition of energy' Giovanni Lisla
strategy: transcribe the human form in space/time.
tactic: 40 red light emitting diodes affixed at equidistance along one side of the body.

photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31370427@N07/

somatological slipstreams....paintings

'the work of art is valuable in so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future' Andre Breton

somatological slipstream I, gouache & ink

somatological slipstream II, gouache

refer to http://simonwinters02.blogspot.com/2009/11/technical-manifesto-of-futurist.html#more

"a fluvial futurism"

The fixed biological body is remapped as a dynamic force field of speeds and intensities, ‘traversed by a powerful, nonorganic vitality’ which includes the mind. (Deleuze & Guattari)

The body-without-organs imagined by Deleuze is ‘affective, intensive, anarchist’ in nature. Amoeba-like, it is open to surrounding matter, which it incorporates.

Vestigial Bodies......annotated pt 2

Vestigial Bodies......annotated

vestigial bodies I, photograph, gouache & ink

vestigial bodies II, photograph, gouache & ink

vestigial anatomies......sketch study