World Wide Cemetery >>
Michael Stanley Kibbee
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||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr
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[Intro] The concept of the virtual cemetery is intriguing, in that it calls
attention to the process in which we think of ourselves and others and what we
become after we die. When we create our own mental images in order to think of
people, we reduce memories of events into icons so that we are able to grapple
the large amount of mental data that is associated with a person. If one is
asked to think about ones mother for example, the first thing that might
appear
is a quick, lo-rez mental image. After we die, these icons and associated
memories become what is left of our identities. We become virtual, identities
existing in the 'internet' of human consciousness. Monuments erected in a
virtual cemetery further iconize our existence and expose the nature of
ourselves as we exist in our mental network.
"Photographs, moving images and even sounds can be included with a monument.
People can create hypertext links among family members, and in doing so forge
a
genealogy of Internet users and their families online and in real time."
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