BEING IS DIFFERENCE

pixellated portraits from the digital edge

Wolfgang Staehle

Won-il Rhee

Suzanne Anker

Edmond Couchot

Blackhawk

Christine Buci-Glucksmann

Carl Fudge

Kathy Brew

Bruce Wands

Stephane Sikora

Anne Barlow

Carol Parkinson

Carter Hodgkin

Cory Arcangel

Doron Golan

Christiane Paul

Johanna Drucker

Ebon Fisher

Frank Gillette

G.H. Hovagimyan

Ken Goldberg

Ken Rinaldo

David Ross

John Klima

Tina La Porta

Donald Kuspit

Barbara London

Margot Lovejoy

Matthias Groebel

Michael Rees

Marie-Claude Nechvatal

Steve Miller

Bil Ehrlich

Robert C. Morgan

Marian Ziola

Frank Popper

Randall Packer

Michael Rush

Steve Sacks

Thyrza Goodeve

Mark Tribe

McKenzie Wark

Wolf-Dieter Stoeffelmeiier

Joseph Nechvatal

BEING IS DIFFERENCE is an expandable portrait series started in the winter of 2005 in New York City. Some cyber-tinged artists, gallery owners, critics, collectors and curators, who I wished to celebrate, came and sat for me - and I wish to thank them again. I was interested here in an interlaced sense of artistic viractuality that couples the biological with the technological and the static with the malleable. As such, BEING IS DIFFERENCE strives for an understanding and depiction of an anti-essentiality of the techno-body so as to allow for a non-privileged logos. Here images of the flesh are undone by machinic and viral disturbances they cannot contain and thus thought detaches itself from the order and authority of the old signs and topples down into the realm of viractual reverie.