Siegfried Zielinski’s notion of media as “spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated,” offers a perspective from which to consider Gregory Chatonsky's hauntingly simple 2004 interactive installation, "Se toucher toi: installation pour trois espaces à distance." Chatonsky’s work is proposed as an instance of the shared experience of withinness of media through which we interdependently construct truths. These reflections borrow upon Jean-Luc Nancy’s 'The ground of the image (Au fond des images)' and other texts in the course of revisiting what Joyce has called “the interdeterminability of points of perception.”

This talk was given at the Computer Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas on April 2, 2009. The CWRL is part of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing.