The Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
METABODY: THE WORLD'S FIRST
COLLABORATIVE VISIONS OF THE BEAUTIFUL
High Art, Photography,
and Media in the Age of
Digital Corporeality
Welcome to the international World Wide Web project of the American artist Douglas Davis. The MetaBody will open at the same time in Poland, Island, Korea and the United States. Other locations will follow.
Now you can read more about the project and interact.
Introduction |
How to interact? | MetaBody at CCA
Douglas Davis managed to organise the double Polish MetaBody presence on the Net (The Centre for Contemporary Art and Donajski's Digital Gallery) without his physical body being there during the process.
It is the magic of words through E-mail and telephone (at two o'clock in the night for dramatic effect)
that made this possible. Douglas can describe his project with much enthusiasm telling in detail who
is going to contribute but leaving a bit in the middle how it will actually look.
This makes that people want to coopereate with him each for her/his own private
reasons, following her/his own desires. He doesn't worry too much about technological details
or design of web-pages. He is sure that at the appropriate time the solutions will be found.
Douglas gives his co-operators a free hand, but he gives a frame within which to work that makes
sure that the end result is the project he had in his mind when he started it all.
MetaBody is a construction that, once it has gained enough momentum, will keep itself
going for a long time. The people that interact with it, each for her/his own private reasons,
following her/his own dreams and desires will produce an emergent structure that will grow
and change and adapt to new possibilities. Michiel van der Haagen
MetaBody at CCA | The Meta Body at NY |
The Meta Body at DDG | about CCA
Credits:
MetaBody is a international project by Douglas Davis.
These pages are made by Marta and Michiel van der Haagen.
Barbara Konopka made the inner space page.
Ryszard Kluszczynski, Barbara Konopka and Michiel van der Haagen gave their texts.
The artists gave their material and idea's.
Translations Ula Sniegowska.
Support: Center for Contemporary Art Warsaw.
We thank SunSITE Poland for hosting these pages.
© Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Marta and Michiel van der Haagen
participating artists
