Jon Rose | Violin Music For Supermarkets

Jon Rose | Violin Music For Supermarkets (1994)

“Rosenberg confesses that there are some real problems interfacing virtual reality with traditional art values and the legal ramifications of all this are mind boggling. Who owns what? Who's got the copyright on who, what or even where? Originality can no longer be traded - there will soon only be access. Huge worlds of data from libraries of film, medicine, books, music, conversations (in any language), all knowledge and experience that can be recorded and stored - an unending exploration of every connection conceivable - a SUPERMARKET for the gratification of all fantasy. But as Galousie writes in his essay on insects 'with representative space, the organism is disposed of it's privilege and no longer knows where to place itself'.

That then will be the rub. A world of huge dark spaces where we float by like 'Strangers in the night exchanging glances'. Separate from our bodies, perhaps not even noticing who's body we were with last night, perhaps not caring. On into a void where bits of information float past us like so much space junk - exiles or permanent immigrants swimming around forever in a universe of enforced Zen"

Jon Rose & Rainer Linz, extract from The Pink Violin.