Anamorphosis. from Greek, from anamorphoun to transform, from morphe form, shape] a an image or drawing distorted in such a way that it becomes recognizable only when viewed in a specified manner or through a special device b the process by which such images or drawings are produced 2 the evolution of one type of organism from another by a series of gradual changes Two artists play through the possibilities in the next discussion on Empyre. Please join Eugenie Shinkle (CA/UK) and Troy Innocent (AU) [ http://www.subtle.net/empyre ] beginning October 1 Empyre is pleased to host Eugenie and Troy in connection with Plaything Symposium, Sydney, October 10-12, 2003 http://www.dlux.org.au/ presented in partnership with, Sydney College of the Arts and the Media and Communications Faculty at the University of Sydney. Eugenie ponders affect and anamorphic in the rave-like world of touch based computer games where Cartesian space loses ground to special devices of touch and vision; and imagines an entranced VR that takes on the materiality of the technology of vision, and the affectivity of looking.' Troy explores 'semiotic morphism, a "systematic translation between sign systems" in which signified messages can be mapped onto various signifiers, multiplying and mutating instances of semiosis. The term captures the shape-shifting plasticity of relationships between sound, image, text, and users in virtual worlds; the interactions through which meaning is made, transformed and remade dynamically and synaesthetically in real time.' Troy Innocent has been exploring new aesthetics enabled by computers since 1989. Trained as a designer and practising as an artist,Innocent is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Multimedia & Digital Arts at Monash University, Melbourne. He is currently producing lifeSigns, an eco-system of signs and symbols. Other recent works include Semiomorph (ISEA02, Nagoya, Japan) and Iconica; trans'forms (Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia) Eugenie Shinkle, PhD lectures on in photographic theory and criticism in the School of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster University, London, UK. A former civil engineer, Eugenie worked as a waterflow control systems designer before dedicating herself to art practice and scholarship in photography and video a photographer and video artist since 1991. http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/reviews_in... -- -empyre- is a soft space dedicated to an open, ongoing conversation on media arts and culture. Subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre --