Future_body explores the relationship between technology, the body, and female subjectivity within a net-worked environment.

The alienation experienced when the subject comes into direct contact with the screen, the interface, and the code is the affect of the displaced embodiment which resonates within the symbolic realm of cyberspace. While the corporeal body disappears, it is replaced by an immaterial outline of our passing presence. The code, generated from image mapping software, refers to the body's DNA structure: what becomes visible to the eye is that which is generally hidden. As we shift toward a state of immaterial existence, technology increasingly eliminates all traces of material reality.

Using the model of the Network as a platform for interaction, Future_body explores the separation of the corporeal world implied by the use of telecommunications technology. The restrictions of our chosen technologies in many ways function as a collapsed environment for our simulated contact. Thus this work focuses in on connection and disconnection, fluctuations in transmission and reception between geographically separated subjects mediated by the surface of the screen.

While viewing this work through the window of the web browser we gain access to the body only as it is situated in Cyberspace. The wireframe model of the female body is mapped as a series of links, a fragmented coded image to be read by a CPU and displayed on it's monitor. Because the model itself is designed for mass distribution, once it has been uploaded into the virtual realm of the internet, it becomes accessible to anyone, anywhere at anytime. Thus, the female figure is everywhere and nowhere at all, invisible yet infinately replicable.

Future_body represents the disembodied and dislocated nature of on-line communication through a re-combination of images, sounds and code as an exploration of presence, absence and our desire for connectivity within a global networked environment.