Hi Sara,
and all
It is too bad that we cannot meet in the tub in Buffalo.
I looked at the Museum of Pure Form and its ambition to make people feel 3d sculptures from remote locations. Do you believe in the haptic potential of new technologies? Are we just thinking we *feel* and *touch* things in remote locations and people?
It just reminded me of a recent conversation I had with the Slovenian philosopher Peter Mlakar --about sex and the G-spot. He believes (with ibidot) that the idea of the G-spot is more important than proving its actual existence. But he also believes in a metaphysical recreation of the body's force-fields through technology. He said that we could e.g. be using nano-technology to enhance the vagina and make it entirely as sensitive as the G-spot.
And now we could work with artists and sculptures-- models and modules and charts and diagrams and theories to propose this experiment as a social sculoture. And meanwhile, I think we could announce that something has already shifted in the way we think about the genital, which lies in the simplicity of language, suggestion, and communication??Katrien