Each time you log in, you can have a new presence and identity, but you can’t

define
it, and you don’t know what effect it has, nor what origin it has, nor what time it has.
Who am ‘I’ in here? And what is the fate of our virtual selves in this world without
fixed models for space and character recognition?
...

Subject: Emotions Encoded

A tele-romantic dialogue, activated by the visitor, is displayed on a computer screen,

which is placed within a generic workplace. The ‘docu-drama’, based on the artist’s
own experience, presents a model of communication between two strangers meeting
on-line. The dialogue poetically expresses the initial encounter, the deepening
relationship, and the conflict, which arises between the textually ‘encoded’ desire
and the non-physicality of the interaction. The emotional intensity of the exchange is
accentuated by the choreography of a computer-animated butterfly.

Supported by the Mondriaan Foundation Amsterdam and the Academy of Media Arts,
KHM, Cologne.