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{2022} :: water on inkjet prints, GIMP selection tool, digital collage :: @annaxmalina :: annamalina.com ----- "Reports of 'journeys' into cyberspace also describe the sensation that one is plunging with a new Self into a world where the possibilities for metamorphosis are unlimited, while the body remains behind in a torpid, everyday world. With the body eliminated as the locus of identity, one's current identity becomes, in the age of the internet, a mere option. (...) It is a common experience that images disconnect the gaze from the body and guide consciousness to an imaginary place where the body cannot follow. Imagination is a corporeal activity even when it means, in a manner of speaking, leaving the body. As a result, the new technologies transform the individual body even more thoroughly into a locus of images, for the body now lives only in images and it is only through images that it communicates with this world or with other worlds. (...) The difference between the imaginary world of old media and that of the new is that in the latter we are apt to discover that we are not alone. We encounter fellow travelers in imagination. Like us, they are not where they are (at home alone in front of their computers), but rather together in a shared Nowhere whose communality creates an illusion of reality that is the more potent the less it can be experienced in daily life. Communication as a communal act is more important than its contents, for it creates the sense that one is acquiring a social existence that is no longer tied to physical places." » An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body {2001/2012, Hans Belting}

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