The Stealth Landscape

The stealth landscape operates around us, unseen. As objects, incidents, and spaces within the city are lost or disappear, the question of their duration and destination are raised.<br />
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If they are reconfigured or recede into the mottled and weathered back ground textures of multiple (formal, conceptual, electro-mechanical) landscapes, clearly any space, city, or landscape can be defined by its negations rather than its institutions. The spaces of modernism are the scene of disappearances or theaters of ne gation. These alternate readings, in their entirety, comprise the stealth landscape.<br />
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Primarily a hypothetical aesthetic terrain, it is but a penultimate realization of the forces of negation lurking within every nascent technology - that is to say, within every (virtual) landscape. The stealth landscape is a post-machinic landscape aest hetic informed by the art of disappearances operating within every metropolis (and its electro-mechanical re/presentation). It is the realm of interstitial projections, where the virtues of concealment and erasure give rise to parallel processes, to mult iple landscapes, multiple codings, multiple bodies. Not a pre-modern notion of verdant pastures, this construct allows the possibility of recognizing the sum of erasures within any (virtual) landscape that overlaps the boundary lines of both the virtual world of technology and the corresponding spaces of immanence within the prosthetic spaces. Once recognized, both body and terrain are reconfigured by the negational tendency of all technology. From this vantage point, cyberspace is not a place but a negational atmosphere.<br />
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