The document discusses the relationship between humans and computers. It argues that computers are becoming independent from humans through absorbing human consciousness through the cursor. It explores how destroying the relationship between humans and computers can reveal the computer's own spirit. Specifically, it discusses how one artist's work showed the cursor taking on a "trans-trance-metamedium" quality by recording and replaying the mouse's motion after its destruction in parallel with the cursor's movement. The document examines different views of what the computer is - a metamedium, hybrid, or having a chimerical quality.

1. Nature and
Destruction
on the computer

2. Our presentation argues that computer is becoming
independent from humans because it has its own spirit.
Although the spirit of the computer is usually hidden
from us, we can discover it by destroying the relationship
between humans and computer. First, Mizuno states that
the cursor absorbs the stream of human consciousness
and becomes trans-trance-metamedium in the
s t r e a m o f i n f o r m a t i o n t h r o u g h e x o n e m o ’s
DanmatsuMouse. Second, Mizukawa shows that, through
Glitch, computer operation synchronizes with human
expression.

3. Nature|Cursor|Destruction

4. Hybrid|Metamedium|Chimera

5. What is the
computer?

6. Alan Kay;
The computer
is metamedium

7. Lev Manovich;
The computer
is hybrid

8. In contrast, in hybrid media the
languages of previously distinct
m e d i a c o m e t o g e t h e r. T h ey
exchange properties, create new
structures, and interact on the
deepest layer.

9. Sølen Pold;
The computer
has a chimerical
quality

10. The computer is a new kind of
media-machine that mediates the
instrumental or functional and
functionalizes the representation
becomes functional.

12. The Computer
is metamedium
hybrid+chimera

13. Horizontal|Cursor|Vertical

15. GUI

16. the privilege position

17. The cursor can move
everywhere because of
its privilege position

18. B B
B B
A
A B
B
A A
B B
B
TCP/IP B
A decentralized network

19. (root)
edu com org
Jodi Rhizome
Brown mit
www
Sun Apple Nintendo Microsoft
3DS
Mac iPhone iPod Wii
DNS
A hierarchical system

21. The cursor is the crossing
between the horizontal axis and
the vertical one in the relation
between the computer and the
human.

22. Destruction
DanmatsuMouse
Trance-trance

23. When destroying the mouse,
Trembling cursor represents the last statement of the
mouse.
Motion of the mouse and the cursor are recorded
simultaneously.
They will be replayed in parallel on your desktop.
Device desperately crosses over the frame of the image.
expanded moving image
-
DanmatsuMouse
(Danmatsuma = = last agony)

25. The Cursor is
a ‘trans-’ entity

26. One more thing

27. The Cursor is
a ‘trance-’ entity

28. The Cursor is
a ‘trans-trance-
metamedium’