As the gels coagulate filar silicates gather in moist latex juice bars to capture the last strands of genital fibroblasts. Silicide Note - Jean Meatwar, Oct. 2000. The purpose of this text is multifold. The work discussed in this text suggests artistic and textual strategies aimed at queering the dominant patterns of sexuality, gender and identity governing the development of human-machine interfaces. In terms 'pleasuring the immoderate senses' the libidinal and erotic impetus behind the New Materiality is insistent.
Skin is all over.
Suture is the significant term here, one familiar to those who have experienced the torturous conceptual pleasures of Screen-level film theory. The phallus is the 'primary signifier' which genders all symbolic systems as masculine. In both senses suture involves the integration of conscious human organisms with code-based systemic machines, supporting the potential development of a transgendered and hypertextual theory of identity. Silicom would weave the text-flesh of the new genders into matter. Anne Marie Schleiner 's feminist hacker game patches and Play Skins also suggest the overlap of virtual and physical skins.