To quote from the
project website:
Thus,
at this point I totally agree with Mitchell: “disconnection would
be amputation. I link therefore, I am.”
It brings us back
to McLuhan's extension of the senses through the media and the
creation of new body extensions. But is it still valid to talk about
the senses? Or a limb-extension? The information and the connection
to the outside world offered by the Internet comes close to a drug or
an addiction; it is an injection of information straight to the brain
which is organised in a parallel but symbiotic way to our experience
of the real world. If
it is no longer possible to imagine a computer without an Internet
connection, can we conceive of ourselves without the possibility of
going online? As early as 1984, William Gibson (who had never seen a
computer) anticipated this situation in Neuromancer, the novel which
in practise fired the starting gun for the cyberpunk genre, in which
one of the worst possible sentences that could be handed down was a
brain operation that prevented the individual from connecting to
cyberspace.
More information, photos
and videos at http://varvarag.cdrews.de/projects.htm#ntw_doll
