Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn to be read aloud by Auriea and navigated by Michael @ wwvf.nl 11 October 2001 A SECRET HISTORY OF WIREFIRE I. Interactive Porn A. The secret history of Wirefire is sex in a virtual world. The loss of physicality -- but let me not call it a loss -- because of what is gained... What one can gain through Wirefire is a new sense of touch, an enhanced fantasy, a glimpse of a personal utopia... What afterall is Sex but communication, and Love one of the messages one hopes to get across. go to - http://google.com search keyword: jetaime machine scroll down link into: http://www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove/it's_not_about_comfort_baby/movies/ B. The genre of Virtual Sex games is something which has permeated the market, type Virtual Sex into any search engine and you can readily see that there is a world out there for whom sex in the mind is 'real' sex. These are roots of our Wirefire application, from the mouth of our river flowed just such an idea. After buying Virtual Valerie as a birthday present for his father, Michael thought to make a virtual sex game, for fun and profit. For one reason or another the project did not come out but we are left with this artifact which shows the beginnings of the Wirefire system: load in browser: text04.dcr The idea of it was to insert 2 players into a story via a modem connection, in this artifact what we have left over is text. A hand touching a thigh in the mind - but had he taken it further the scenes would have been played out in some graphical way. You chose to be man or woman. You as a participant show up in the game and your virtual partner sits next to you at the other end of the line. As you select the action you wish to take the other Virtual Sex participant gets two choices of what they will do next. based on thier choice you get two choices of what to do next, and so on, and so forth until the game is done (sigh... if these things are ever finished) the thought was also to accomodate virtual voyeurs as some people like to play and others they like to watch. II. /underyourdesk that which senses you touchless and touches you senseless ( read aloud together: ) zuper: (private) sleep with me zuper: (private) close your eyes womanonfire -> zuper: eyes are closed zuper: (private) mine too womanonfire -> zuper: i am womanonfire -> zuper: with you zuper: (private) yes zuper: (private) bones womanonfire -> zuper: i can hear your heartbeat zuper: (private) muscles zuper: (private) I can hear yours zuper: (private) I can feel it womanonfire -> zuper: sleep womanonfire -> zuper: dream zuper: (private) I think I'll stay awake just a little bit zuper: (private) and watch you zuper: (private) breathe zuper: (private) memories womanonfire -> zuper: feel the memories zuper: you're making exactly the same gestures as I am: holding your head, stroking your hair,... womanonfire -> zuper: : womanonfire -> zuper: it is you stroking my hair zuper: (private) my hand follows the shape of the side of your body without touching it load in browser: http://entropy8zuper.org/underyourdesk/ an evacuated building. B. Chatting was very important for a time to both of us. this text communication was the heigth of intimacy to the point where before we met when we had opportunity to hear one anothers voices it was too strong a gesture i felt blown away by the power of just this one added dimension to our affair. The sad truth was that we wanted to hide in our fairy tale and not have the delicate bubble in which we floated burst by reality. It sounds evil but the real things in our lives were not any more important for being real. Our Virtual Work was and still is the most real thing which has ever happened. Perhaps as he said at the time "it takes believing in magic..." it takes desire to create ones own paradise. The office was where we first had a glimpse of what Wirefire could be. Communicating live from 1 to 1. In this the last version of /underyourdesk before Wirefire was completed our so called "interoffice stereo system" which consisted of us buying the same albums and playing them at the same time while we chatted had evolved into the ability to play audio clips for one another to add emphasis or just to get each others attention. we made it a comfortable office and met there everyday to work, to play... C. skinonskinonskin, a series of digital letters to one another, was begun the day after we first came together in text when Michael sent me breath.html. We set up a small room in http://www.hell.com/NO/SUCH/PLACE/EXISTS/seasideMOTEL/. We, both being web designers, wanted to share that coded intimacy with one another building our own world. DHTMLove. D. Genesis was the first chapter of our website which we made together, here, online. All of these elements are present in what is today Wirefire the chat, the webcameras, the sampling of elements from our work the pieces forming a dream for us. But next private/public place was our goal. After all we are exhibitionists. I've had a webcamera beaming me onto the net since 1998... i was ready for what we were to create next... III. Wirefire beta We were now living together. but... we were apart... I was overseas. Michael sends me email. I go to /underyourdesk, we talk. I leave the office open on dialup in my hotel room, i sleep and he plays music to wake me up. I was overseas. We take screen-grabs at one another. .. ... Michael sends me email. I go to http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire for the first time and this is what i find there. load: Wirefire beta The basic concept is that we make tools such as this one which is an interface to the movies on the server. Another movie acts as browser client and allows "voyeurs" to tune in. needless to say this initial content of Wirefire evolved... IV. *W*I*R*E*F*I*R*E* this is what Wirefire became: load: Wirefire 1 interface Wirefire is an online performance, a communications environment and a very good story. We create simple files which are mixed in real time. Built in is a system for us to see the presence of viewers and also a way for the audience to communicate with us. The system exists entirely on the Internet meaning that we can be in any location and the performance can be viewed by anyone with a current web browser and the Macromedia Flash 5 plug-in. This is the only online performance/tool of its kind which we have been operating since July 1999 and in its present format since April 2001. We are live online inside the Wirefire environment every Thursday night from Midnight to Friday 1am ( Belgian time. ) Wirefire is meant to be performed and viewed online but we have given non-virtual Wirefire performances and your computer can play with our Wirefire data anytime from our website in Random or Replay performance mode. Wirefire is our personal remixer of emotions and graphics, it provides an opportunity to free-associate the themes and materials in our other projects and an opportunity to infect our collaboration with Autopo‘zie. load: Wirefire 2 interface Technically, it is animations, sound files, and jpegs pushed into motion with an engine of scripts and layer built upon layer littered with specs of dust. A thin wire strung between two camera images, fingers on keyboards like figertips on each others skin, letters on a monitor screen, whispers. Beneath that, there is a fairy tale for those who like to watch, a realtime communication with its messages built into the content. Though now that we are together and we've morphed our daily chat obsession into weekly group sex. The currents which run through Wirefire are still the same... what does it mean to interact with another human using digital media. what does one do when you fall in love with a 160x120 pixel image? How is it to be a digital being in love? What is ecstacy like in the network? V. *WIREFIRE PERFORMANCE*