Methodologically, this interactive Web-based installation aims to problematise theories of transindividualist telesthetic existence. It seeks to explore whether a digital mediation of the sublime cybersoma is possible.
The installation enables observers to become the observed, by digitally photographing themselves (or having others photograph them) and downloading their digitised facial imprints onto this expanding online database. As researcher, I will digitise these facial after-images in Photoshop, reducing their alpha levels and refracting light to varying degrees so that each image is set at specific wavelengths within the RGB electromagnetic spectrum. These images will then be imported into Flash to constitute an interactive movie. Users will be able to select the after-images of various different faces (including their own) and coalesce them into a 'transindividualistic' spectre.
Ultimately, it is hoped that this Web-based interactive installation will form but one part of this practice-based research process. The prospective end result of these various coalesced images would be an exhibition of high quality, larger-than-life digital photographic stills.