the self is now swaddled in electromagnetic skin.
+..Experimental +..Teeth of the Sea +..Alt on vanishing in by David Rylands + Get With The Program by Teeth Of The Sea + Seu Sangue EP by Goat For Thompson, the vampirization of our etheric juices reaches its apogee with the gloves, bodysuits, and head-mounted displays of virtual reality technologies—gear that allows for the total electromagnetic colonization of the energy body and the astral body alike. But while some see the inbreeding of virtual and energetic bodies as perverse, even demonic, others find it can be almost angelic. One of the most evocative and visceral virtual reality technologies to date remains Osmose, a high-end electronic art installation created by the Canadian Char Davies in the mid-1990s. Exploiting the same graphics programs that conjured Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs to life, and running on SGI hardware normally reserved for big-budget science and military simulations, Osmose swallows the participant—suitably swathed in electronic gear—into a sen...