s.EXE interactives _ Christina Goestl

Christina Goestl



s.EXE Pink Foam by Clitoressa, Red Wild by Renée Mussai	s.EXE MC_user. Photos Renée Mussai	s.EXE Her Happy Boldness. Photos Renée Mussai

Bonjour. OBN invited me to publish my lecture at the very cyberfeminist international conference. On paper! (--not exactly my chosen media for publishing, although I do have a passion for scribbling on paper.) I work digital and keep my work digital. Now this is a completely different situation than at the conference: I can't see you, you can't see me nor my work. Well, you can see images, yet many of the most pleasurable features are missing: the movements, the interactions, the dynamics.

Today is Women's Day, the 8th of March 2002, and I am sitting here, glued to my computer, working to meet the deadline for this reader, instead of playing with the girls.

Enjoy !i!i!

introducing myself
I started loving computers the day I bought my very first modem in 1993, and ever since I have been passionatly involved in net.art, web design and visual communication, closely following up the many steps of development the 'babymedia' internet has gone through over the years. I consider myself a pioneer. I very much welcome the expansions provided by the internet, particularly its potential to overcome the limitations given by time and space.

second try
My name is Christina Goestl, I am a cyberfemme feminist, sexpert, artista, interface expert, netizen, traveller, a telecommunicateresse. I understand digital art production not as the construction of objects by means of a computer (Objekt-Erstellung mittels Computer) but rather as a process. My work is committed to system-thinking and not to the concept of the final product (Endprodukt). My focus lies in 'new media', with a special interest in aspects such as 'interactivity' and 'processive working', terms which - unfortunately - suffer from inflation (endangered terms in term-entrophying times, unterliegen einer begriffs-inflation). I am interested in collaborative and interdependent processes based on dialogical structures, with all my arty sexy friends !i!i!

related links
www.clitoressa.net
www.matrix64.net
www.t0.or.at/kagran
c@clitoressa.net

introducing s.EXE
s.EXE interactives is a loop-based visual sequencer, created for live acts and individual user interaction. Images are compressed up to temporary superimages. An effect relationship develops between the images. s.EXE interactives invites for play with multiplication, disassembling, repetition, and the dynamics of movement. s.EXE interactives is conceived as an open system with dynamic and interactive structure, which finds its present continuation in the effect relations created by the user interactions. Playful exploration.

"The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one's own courage." Anais Nin

das bild ist nicht nur abbild sondern ausgangsbild um ein bild zu bilden mit anderen bildern. in der ver-dichtung der bilder entsteht das bild der (bild)sequenz. die sequenz befindet sich im konzert mit anderen sequenzen, der prozess multipliziert sich. die kreation einer sequenz kann als temporaere fertigstellung eines dichten bildes betrachtet werden - weiterentwicklung bietet sich an. erforschung durch spiel ist das ziel.

I created this application in spring 2001 out of a strong desire to work with moving images and open myself new playgrounds. I had some very distinct ideas about how I wanted to present visuals (not video - not limited in time and space) and since there was no tool that would match my desires I created s.EXE interactives.

statement
Technology as submissive. (Technologie ist per se submissive.) I practice - and warmly suggest - bold exploitation of technical possibilities for feminist sub-and perversion. Sexy tech - high impact.

my.img = alt.img = tmp.img = img.shift

releases
s.EXE Her Happy Boldness, s.EXE feat. 'fe/male' and 'Jonny Player Special', s.EXE Madame Mulatresse, s.EXE Pink Foam Sexualized, s.EXE user (web version)

s.EXE Her Happy Boldness
All Photos by Renée Mussai, starring Clitoressa and Friends. Madame Mulatresse starring Mulatresse. Styling by Ubah. User-shirt by skinblue. Silicone Dildos by Sh!, London. Locations: Brick Lane, London, and Andreas Garten. Thank you to Boris Kopeinig. Merci Ming Li! Always a pleasure working with you.

"girls girls girls and the freedom to choose: multiple [sexual, racial, cultural] identities, bodily pleasures, above all: narcissism, more, always. "I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive" - Zora Neale Hurston." (Renée Mussai)

"was waere wenn" - kinderphantasie, maedchenfantasie vor dem eintritt in den wertekanon der erwachsenenwelt. die unendliche weite der vorstellungs- und gestaltungskraft (die unangepasste, mit multipler (sexueller) identität, fe-male, die alterslose). mich hat das nie verlassen (her happy boldness), alle meine arbeit gehen von "was wäre wenn" aus. was dazukam, durch das frau-(erwachsene)-sein: die reflexion, die gegenueberstellung mit der welt in der ich lebe. ausgangspunkt ist aber immer die freiheit der maedchenfantasie - wie ein weisses blatt papier. (auf das ich blicke bis zum einblick, bis sich die zeichen zeigen, die ich aufgreife (begreife) und verdichte bis zur sichtbarkeit).

"In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lighty down into the Looking-glass room. [...]
Then she began looking about, and notices that what could be seen from the old rooms was quite common and interesting, but all the rest was as different as possible." (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass)

"Childhood: when I was a child the only thing I wanted was to become a pirate. ... pirates lived in the living world because pirates had fun. since pirates lived in my books, I ran into the world of books, the only living world I, a girl, could find. I never left that world.

"Adult: I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. because I want to live forever in wonder."
(Kathy Acker, Bodies of Work, Seeing Gender, page 158/159, Serpent's Tail 1997)

s.EXE Her Happy Boldness uplifting visuals were presented at several live acts, for the enjoyment of appreciative crowds at Europride and women-only clubbings, as perfomance for an exhibition opening and at the Ars Electonica 2001 opening night party. During the Ars Festival I also had the pleasure to set up an installation for individual interaction. Users where invited for playful exploration of s.EXE Her Happy Boldness, contributing and composing their own visuals.

s.EXE user (web version)
www.clitoressa.net features a further developed online-version of s.EXE interactives, by ways of interlaced images, allowing them to laminate into one another and create complex projections.

excerpt from matrix.64, version for the 2001 century, www.matrix64.net
<div class='doclet2' i-D='docen8l2s2'> <a href= 'javascript:show(8)' class='link2' onmouseout='unzoom(8)'> bring condoms, dam's and lube. be educated about sexual transmitted diseases. act responsible towards yourself and others. play safe, sane and consensual. </a> </div> <div class='doclet1' i-D='docen9l2s1'> <a href= '#' class='link1' onmouseover= 'zoom(9,event)'> form visions. set up a plan. structurize. go for it. design your life. </a> </div>

---fini merci ---