ice cold, body hot. Computers pulsate with digestion, excretion, in-spiration. Machine organs, machine mirrors, machine projections. Propelled by a desire to be everywhere- ubiquitous as code.

Morphing their way through the body. Visceral travels masked by a cyber pretence of abandoning the meat and becoming brain. Secretly travelling.
Information culture's promise of pure exchangabilty masks its paradigm of sameness. This degradation of information theory is a cultural move parallel to the way psychoanalysis was reduced to ego psychology, thus eliminating the frightening, messy, noisy unconscious. With its trajectory across races, species and places, information crosses out differences. Excising excess as it goes. We are learning to know the body as if outside culture and history. And we are being habituated to understand corporeality only in the narrowest of biological discourses. Now there is (only) DNA to inform you of who you are and then to re/form you.

And what is happening to bodies' organs in this information culture? They had already been brought into line in the West, tempered, quieted down with bourgeois individuality. It's just a logical step to leave the meat totally behind when its refusal of silence continues. But sometimes, through the noisy digestive processes of digital art, organs and computers break this silencing sameness and let loose cacophonies of difference and visceral bodies.

Messy, unexpected eruptions, noisy, undisciplined digestion, strange, unpredictable excretions. Computers as stomach and intestines.

More on this in Norie Neumark, "The Well Tempered Liver" in Brandon LaBelle and Christof Migone (eds.), Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Errant Bodies Press, May 2001)

ABC site http://arts.abc.net.au/headspace/special/deadcentre/default.htm