Intention der Beziehung      :Ort


<From: M.>

The panel is tonight from 7:30-9 or so .  One of the presenters, Jordan,
will at some point link with JohnF Simon Jr, at the Gering Gallery on PMC
MOO.  I should ask Jordan first but--

- Perhaps you could meet us at the gallery?!

The best command is probably
<@join jordan>
rather than @go gering.

Sorry I can't be more specificv about the time.  I have to ask, too, that
spider remain quietly spinning in a corner, as I am not sure what it is
exactly that jordan and jfsjr want to do with the few minutes of MOO time
available to them.  But it would be great to know you are there!  Sorry
it is so late in the night for German computer architects (1.30-3 a.m. in 
Your Berlin!)--but speaking for myself, I would be thrilled to see you there.
  I will <@who> to look for you as soon as we log on.

All the best,
M.







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Ein Ort ist, daß man hingeht.


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PMC-MOO is a virtual space designed to promote the exploration of postmodern theory 
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Onno_Guest alias Spider presents: <Jordan Crandall of The X-Art Foundation in 
New York, will be joined online on the Post        Modern Culture MOO by John F. 
Simon, Jr., a collaborator on "Blast 4: 
Bioinformatica,"        to discuss "Performative Webs."> 
vitruvius conscious of large captive audience
The spotlights are adjusted.....
collective_subject say, "hell"
vitruvius hurriedly completes preparations, puts on large drop earrings
jfsjr coughs nervously....
collective_subject jumps up and down
collective_subject crys
Karsten_Guest says, " tension increasing..."
vitruvius [to collective_subject]: for goodness' sake just be patient
the crowd is hushed i anticipation of collective_subject's words....
vitruvius summons the ghoulish Pierre, his dresser for last-minute adjustments.
jfsjr straightens vits costume - can't be too careful.....
collective_subject ask, "vit are you dancing?"
vitruvius prepares to dance his famous danse macabre
Onno_Guest says, "what the heck...?"
vitruvius [to Onno_Guest]: just sit down
Onno_Guest says, "can't even stand"
collective_subject takes a long beautifully colored robe off a wooden hook.
vitruvius takes his place on the stage of the Casa del Brown
vitruvius rises slowly from crouching position centre stage as audience howls with pent 
up applause the lights dim
vitruvius disturbed by sudden intervention of Brown cabaret orchestra
The crowd cannot contain itself with vit's dance beginning...
collective_subject [to vitruvius]: "are you going to dance?
jfsjr says, "I think he's begun...."
vitruvius had been told that this evening's performance would be unaccompanied
vitruvius remains calm
vitruvius adjusts tempo
collective_subject awaits eagerly the dance
collective_subject sits motionless
the band starts again - more to vit's liking...
the lights ficker and dim
vitruvius commences the famed dance last seen at the Cafe de Paris, Aleppo
the ground shakes a bit
Onno_Guest alias spider starts mooving slowly
vitruvius is conscious of collective intake of breath as he flings himself into the 
salacious swaying rhythms of the dance
a scroll undwinds partially
Onno_Guest says, "smooth and sexy"
small rustling noises come from the stage...
vitruvius leaps nimbly
jfsjr sh the symbols crash...
Onno_Guest falls on his knees looking up
vitruvius  swishes his gorgeous draperies as the Brown orchestra rises in pitch and 
dramatic intensity
vitruvius carefully corrects tilt of wig
boom Boom BooM BOOM BOOM!
Karsten_Guest  is stepping step by step along the stage
Onno_Guest lost visual contact, just feels the rythm
vitruvius ecstatically reaches the grand crescendo of his danse macabre
vitruvius returns to the centre of the stage, and orchestra fizzles out
Onno_Guest blows exstatically up
The crowd is hushed in awe....
vitruvius is joined by his dresser, the ghoulish Pierrre (that's the macabre bit)
vitruvius and Pierre conclude with a sizzling pas-de-deux
collective_subject say, "vit your dance is slow today"
vitruvius says, "it's slow because it's very sexy"
collective_subject blows kisses
Karsten_Guest  is beginning to fly along a highStanding tango tunePause
collective_subject laughs
jfsjr The crowd goes wild...
vitruvius  stoops to acknowledge the applause
vitruvius blows kisses
vitruvius catches air-borne carnation in teeth
jfsjr pulls the curtain closed - a scotch in his hand and tosses a dozen roses to vit...
vitruvius [to jfsjr]: Thank you. You are my most loyal fan
jfsjr exclaims, "Fabulous VIT - one of your best!"
collective_subject waves to everyone
Onno_Guest feels kisses on his fur
vitruvius returns for a CURTAIN CALL
jfsjr I'm overwhelmed....
collective_subject say, "thank you for joining us"
collective_subject say, "see you soon"
collective_subject has disconnected.
The housekeeper arrives to cart collective_subject off to bed.
vitruvius acknowledges the Brown uproar (he has caused a sensation)
jfsjr stumbles backward from the force of the dance and the 4 or 5 drinks he's had...
vitruvius muses
jfsjr says, "And thanks to the guests, too....your improvisations were most welcome..."
Karsten_Guest says, " you're welcome"
Karsten_Guest says, " it was a pleasure""
vitruvius finally leaves the stage, staggering beneath the burden of bouquets and 
invitations to lavish professorial cocktail parties
jfsjr throws a silk cape around vit - helps him from the stage...







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Mich interessiert es, Verortung herzustellen...


To: m.
From: kafe@is.in-berlin.de (Karsten Feucht)
Subject: Re: this weekend... present amazingly present

Hi M.,

one day after our amazing meeting in Gering Gallery i.e. Jourdan's talk at Your mediaEvent at Brown... enough 
reasons to feel very ...amazingly present! 

Onno gave me the hint to come to Gering, so we both could be there.

...it was not boring at all but amazingly exiting!!! I mostly liked to experience the link 
to so called RL. The KNOWING that we were projected to the screeeen constructed kind 
of the feelings of beeing actors on a stage. The important detail hereby is, that this 
"knowing" was only constructed by lingual descriptions. Descriptions are able to 
construct these spaces! Even dancing tango together is possible. Pure communication is 
enough to build actions - as far as one understands "event" as emotioning of 
man/WOOman instead of someTHING objectively happening outside (... 'cause: where 
is "outside"? @who should know, talk, fell anything about someTHING which happens 
not inside of human beeing's conversation?). So better: It's not pure communication 
enough to build actions but: acting means to converse. So... ...kisses to You for the 
present to join this experience! 

In a similar sense I'm extremely amazed by Your "Male and F.\email" - report: Relation 
does not mean beeing together but distinguishing the beeing together. The LAGs make 
the relation...

 |\				  |o
o| | 	    livi'n in a		  | |o
  o| 	             lag	   \|

   [ Do You hear the song? hope that it works...] 

...in the same way as the pauses define the rhythm and the tensionable presence of the 
players in a tango dance conversation... ...there maybe a similar idea of lag in the 
attitude of variating h-is/er identities by using different caracters... 


>It was my encounter with the two of you on Media MOO that showed me the 
>advantages of having a character 
>tangent to Marlena. I reserve the right, of course, to create additional personae in 
>cyberspace, with more or less 
>distant relations to my corporeal "self" . . . which is what I find conceptually more 
>interesting.

...of course: much more interesting. That's what I'm interested to build: a station, where 
one can "get" identities, which are more viable for a specific situation (and get rid of 
others, which are less). This "getting" might be the same viable procedure than the 
@request <caracter> for <"other caracter">. I'm shure, that the force of 
describing, shown in MOOversation, is able to build more than a "cyber game". The 
force of THE "reality" is a sad joke. RL is in fact nothing else but another description. 
But it's the consent description. That's why it's real. It's not real because of it's force, but it is powerfull because of the consent about it. But consent allways has to be built. 
Enough work for architects, who mention lags and aliasses as viable building-materials. 
Reality = consent = conversation. The more lags between different caracters, the more 
posibilities there are to build whatever we want or need... 

By the way: Do You know the film "Dialogs with madwonmen"? I wnated to see it 
yesterday but failed 'cause the cinema was stuck. A friend told me, that it was very 
interesting. One of the interviewed women created 25 different identities to handle her 
"madness"!


As Onno told You, we already began to dig a small beach-sauna just in order to get 
practice in getting practice. 
So I'm looking foreward to see You soon - 

- look for
<present>
...is present alias Karsten!







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