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130 The Implicit Body
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Figure 2. Untitled 5 (2004). Interactive installation by Camille Utterback.
Interactive installation and software, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of
the artist
In his chapter, “The Affective Topology of New Media Art,”
Hansen builds on Deleuze’s time-image, and correlative any-space-whatever,
and introduces what he calls the digital image, and the digital any-space-
whatever (DASW). The DASW is a space felt in the body rather than
experienced as visually extended apprehensible space.
The DASW is a process of “modulation that is operated by the
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affective body itself.” By experiencing ‘in our flesh’ a projected digital
image of something that does not exist ‘in the flesh,’ the work provokes a
virtualization of the body. The DASW “lacks an ‘originary’ contact with a
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space of human activity” and instead becomes tactile when it “takes place
