Abstract

THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES HER RECENT WORK SUBJECT: EMOTIONS ENCODED, AN INSTALLATION THAT PRESENTS a model of communication between two strangers meeting online. In this “tele-romantic” dialogue, the emotional intensity of the exchange is accentuated by a computer-generated butterfly of the genus Morpho. A docudrama based on the author’s own experiences in the Internet’s text-based virtual worlds, Subject: emotions encoded considers the complexity of human relationship through the wires, from the exciting initial encounters to the conflicts that inevitably arise between physical and virtual reality.

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