THE WHITE ROOM....

Compel…. to compel. To compel the users to enter into a re physicalized world of the total body map and the spatial use of the body. As western thought changed its Cartesian view of centering the ‘intellect’ in one spot (Descartes put it in the pineal gland) we have opened up discourses of the entire human body as ‘brain endowed’ in the Mandalas of body mapping. It is the full and very physical use of the body that allows the expansion of the intellect to fire fully. From the time that humans stood on their feet to look above the savanna grasses there is a very short line to that of the iphone downloading the visual internet in your palm as you walk distractedly through the busy streets of a big city.

In Zen archery the brain not only ‘lives’ on the tip of the arrow but in and through the target. Intention and tool are wed so that the distance between the archer, the gesture and the target become incidental. Intention (which does still add a great deal of risk in the mix) must know the target and ….for the potency of body mapping on the brain…we must know what it is that we attempt to hit. What are we hitting with this new immersive environment in a naked projectile space. Should…as a space for many…be devoid of intention and reflect and project hundreds of bits of information in this ‘potential’ space? When starved of the mirror neurons necessary for the accurate distributed play of the four forces of human engagement then a type of mirror shut down happens. The governor who commences a romantic love affair with a distant argentine lover is really seeking to recharge his batteries and gain an accurate image of him. One of the main features of a social network site like face book is not to communicate with past and present friends but to mirror information back to your fragmented self …to recharge in image, activity, movies, and epistolary forms a way to reengage the CS, AR, EM, and MP that this forum can fully exploit.