https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/f34a4c23a6293a852a7b6576ec6b3648.png e4941634c9cb8223ebd90c20a3b1559e https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/380600a488af3a611facf4ff4d2eaba6.png 91959e1cf32b974addec8f079a11d4b7 https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/e5109e519be5dc0998bf5dd85bb2b53f.png 60d3b24734018174368472e19d9117b4 ADELTA Item Items included in the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art (ADELTA). Platform Software platform or means of display e.g Installation / YouTube / HTML / Flash / Twitter / QuickTime QuickTime/Shockwave/VRLM Player Work URL The URL of the original work, included as an HTML link. <a href="http://www.subtle.net/carrier/#">http://www.subtle.net/carrier/#</a> Source of Description The source of information included in the Description, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. Artist's notes Artist Statement A statement about the work, as provided by the artist(s). carrier is a love story - an intimate romance between invasive virus and sentient host. carrier eroticises the intertwining of genetic codes, where cross-species merging on the cellular level is sexuality in its rawest form. carrier is artificial intelligence embedded in the world wide web - viral life swarming within the nervous system of our planet. carrier explores the textures of intersections rather than contrasts of oppositions, elevating invalid code in a symbiotic ecology in both the biological and virtual domains. carrier is a becoming symborg model as we emerge into a new millennium, as we seek a way to culturally reposition ourselves to the dissolving natural/artificial/species divide. carrier positions the contagious virus as a lively agent adapting in response to a changing environment, engaging with, and replicating within the receptive body. carrier draws blood from immunology and immunosemiotics, integrating the dynamic of interrelating pure codes, whether they be within the immune system or the computer operating system. carrier project originated from my research in gender, net art practice and chronic viral illness, with intent to reposition viral infection as positive biological merging with the flesh - a love story with an intelligent being, rather than the defensive medical response to invasion which sites the body as a detached battleground. Source of Artist Statement The source of information included in the Artist Statement, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. Provided by Artist Genre Web based interactive multimedia Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Rackham_carrier Title A name given to the resource Carrier Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rackham, Melinda Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Description An account of the resource Carrier is an interactive immersive multimedia work that was conceived to be experienced in discrete darkened space and projected through a data projector with an external sound system. It could also be experienced through a computer monitor. The carrier site integrated musings on artificial intelligence, immunio-semiotics, swarm theory, genetic engineering and tantric practice with digital imagery, synthesised voice, vrml, shockwave, java script, java applets and data based interaction; with imagery sourced from medical research, insect communities, and binary coding, and included intimate real life experiences of living with chronic viral illness, which were contributed anonymously from the internet.<br />Description from artist's notes. <strong>Artist Statement</strong><br />Carrier is a love story - an intimate romance between invasive virus and sentient host. Carrier eroticises the intertwining of genetic codes, where cross-species merging on the cellular level is sexuality in its rawest form. Carrier is artificial intelligence embedded in the world wide web - viral life swarming within the nervous system of our planet. carrier explores the textures of intersections rather than contrasts of oppositions, elevating invalid code in a symbiotic ecology in both the biological and virtual domains.<br />Carrier is a becoming symborg model as we emerge into a new millennium, as we seek a way to culturally reposition ourselves to the dissolving natural/artificial/species divide. Carrier positions the contagious virus as a lively agent adapting in response to a changing environment, engaging with, and replicating within the receptive body. Carrier draws blood from immunology and immunosemiotics, integrating the dynamic of interrelating pure codes, whether they be within the immune system or the computer operating system.<br />Carrier project originated from my research in gender, net art practice and chronic viral illness, with intent to reposition viral infection as positive biological merging with the flesh - a love story with an intelligent being, rather than the defensive medical response to invasion which sites the body as a detached battleground.<br />Provided by Artist. Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Melinda Rackham. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder. Digital poetry Melinda Rackham