Hunting notes from Outernet: The embodiment of images after the Internet

Abstract

This paper describes the infiltration of the image from the Internet to the everyday environment, what is beginning to be called the Outernet. However, this shift toward the physical space – architectural, urban, geological – is performed by prioritizing the technical and informative character of the image, which reduces the body to stationary and dissociated situations. From this point of departure we propose a parallel situation, in which we present the body as a transducer between image-providing devices and environments. We will consider the Outernet from its rereading as a low-fidelity Wilderness, a hybrid landscape where the body can hunt and embody image in a wild way – not entirely rational –, here described as performative research. Shifting the intentionality of our movements, we unfold a field of relationships in which the image is distributed along the body, the device, and the environment.