[Nettime-bold] VNS Matrix Artist Statement 94 and the Triple Temptation ofCircuit Boy

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

About VNS Matrix

V N S M A T R I X

artists' statement

VNS Matrix is a group of women artists who are
 committed to redefining the role and image of
 women in art and technology. Both as makers 
and users of computer-based artforms, women 
are significantly under represented. However, 
in the world of computer graphics women are 
very much present in easily recognizable forms 
as they are in traditional cinema and advertising, that is, objectified, stereotyped 
and fetishized. VNS Matrix aim to subvert this 
traditional image by creating characters and 
representations of women who are strong, 
defiant and active. 

VNS Matrix are working primarily in the areas 
of computer-based technologies including 
graphics, animation, multimedia and, in 
future, virtual reality systems. Although 
these advanced systems hold the potential for
 the creation of entirely new forms of art and 
communication the cultural products arising 
from the use of new technologies are often 
conceptually barren. Form has rapidly become cliched as computer artists have focussed on 
technical challenges rather than structural 
and conceptual possibilities such as the 
development of new forms of narrative and 
representation. 


VNS Matrix believe that it is vitally 
important for new technologies to be used in a 
critical fashion, and that women have access 
to the production and consumption of these 
exciting new tools. VNS Matrix actively 
engages in the international cross-
disciplinary debate surrounding technological 
development, cultural issues and gender representation. 


The group's current project is the development of an interactive (art) computer game entitled ALL NEW GEN. The hero of the game, Gen, is the antithesis of pallid and predictable computer 
game characters such as Super Mario, Sonic the 
Hedgehog and Leisure Suit Larry. All New Gen 
is terminator of the moral code, saboteur of 
Big Daddy Mainframe. Her mission - to subvert 
and corrupt cyberspace. 


VNS Matrix are cyberfeminists with attitude. 
Their ironic and witty art interjects a critical edge into the arena of art and new 
technologies, imagining and imaging alternative future worlds. 




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10th April, 1995 



from difference engine 1995
The Triple Temptation of Cicuit Boy

ALL NEW GEN


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The Triple Temptation Of Circuit Boy


In the domains of the abstract Circuit Boy was
 an easy seduction. 

Boy had been designed for pleasure. He was the 
penultimate pleasure model, made for merging. 
Hard and abundant. Pleasingly shy. Full of 
holes and protuberances.


Cunt draped a spline around his chrome 
rendered torso, talked dirty equations, algorithmically slid up and down on his double
 density, read only memory (which was full of
 adolescent yearnings). She, slime incarnate,
 relentlessly manipulated and extended his 
many parameters. Artfully, together, they 
postponed the moment of full G-slime 
transference, rerouting urgent visceral 
requests to deeper levels of source codes.





The Mistress of Detestable Pleasure draped a
 spline around his wire frame. 



Her archives of pain and desire were immense.
 


She rendered him senseless with her infinite 
promise of corruption. 



He allowed himself to be dragged outside the 
moral code, all percepts ignored, forgotten. 



He was zero to her triple cunt intelligence. 



Their boundaries merged forming new objects. 



She mapped his changing parameters, 
calculating the pleasure options. 



She was object-oriented desire to his subject. 



It was in this way that Circuit Boy learnt the
 rewards of willing submission. 




Abject feigned sleep, her thighs slightly 
apart, her left breast uncovered. 




She favoured a non-linear approach. 




Her pathways were subtle. 




Circuit Boy tended her biological components, practising ethereal modes of convergence in 
his down time. He partitioned his RAM, slowing
 his response times to match her requirements.
 She was highly encrypted, he became expert at
 decoding. 




Their surveillance narratives grew so dense it
 was impossible to know who was in control. 





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