Expanded Internet Art by Ceci Moss;

Author:Ceci Moss;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Resistance in the Domain of All Inputs, All Outputs: Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput’s Les Immatériaux

When you drive from San Diego to Santa Barbara, a distance of several kilometers, you go through a zone of conurbation. It is neither town, nor country, nor desert. The opposition between a center and a periphery disappears, as does the opposition between an inside (the city of men) and an outside (nature). You have to change the car radio wavelength several times, as you go through several different broadcasting zones. It is more like a nebula where materials (buildings, highways) are metastable states of energy. The streets and boulevards have no facades. Information circulates by radiation and invisible interfaces.

This is the kind of space-time, hardly sketched out here, which has been chosen for The Immaterials. The eye will be deprived of the exclusive privilege it enjoys in the modern gallery. Neither will there be a clearly signposted itinerary, given the uneasy reflection that the exhibition hopes to provoke. Indeed, it is not a question of presenting an exhibition but rather an overexposition, in the sense employed by Virilio when he speaks of an overexposed city. And neither is it a question of arranging the objects shown according to subject matter or discipline, as though the delimitations from which these resulted were still intact today.

—Jean-François Lyotard Les Immatériaux in Les Immatériaux: album et inventaire (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou/CCI, 1985), p. 20 (translation by the author).

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