JARBOE : Do you have a '5 year plan' for your work/career? How often do you access your accomplishments and at what point do you set your sites on a new goal?

AURIEA : I can plan but things have a way of taking care of themselves... or not.

 

JARBOE : IN my work, I have had the experience of strangers telling me that they feel a deep connection to me based on what they have interpreted about me through my music and lyrics and voice. I get love letters and people sometimes pour out their hearts to me. ...It is my opinion that websites can and your own sites in particular do have that same kind of powerful intimate effect on people. Not only with such things as the live cam--where I felt you were fearless in showing us your emotions in your expressive face..but also in the layers of intensity and seductive beauty, humour, and even danger that the unfolding and interactive dimensions in your work reveal. Will you comment on this?

 

AURIEA : I got into this medium to have that connection with people. When I do something I want people to feel it phisically now. In the beginning I didn't know that this sort of intimacy with strangers was possible. It does mean alot to know that your work can have meaning in someone elses life, and it effects me greatly to get those emails from people who enjoy what i do. I have hoped all along to make works which can transcend physicality(don't know that i've gotten there yet)... part of a website exists only in the minds of those experiencing it... much like a movie, in fact i releate internet art more closely with film than with books, the big difference between it and film being this live dimension, this one on one quailty... where the viewer can be made aware of the artists existence and the artists hand and in some cases join hands with the artist to create together in some way or create an exchange of ideas. It can be a meeting of minds or hearts.

 

JARBOE : I would love to hear about a project you are conceptualizing/working on now!

 

AURIEA : The projects I am planning for the near future involve my ongoing collaborations with Michael Samyn. Our website http://www.entropy8zuper.org has a structure which allows us to work on it chapters, first was Genesis(where the focus was on our meeting and beginng a creative partnership), then Exodus(which is about me leaving New York)... i think you can tell where we are going with this :-) Anyway, the next episode for the site is Leviticus I will let its actual content be a surprise but anyone who has ever actually read that book of the bible will wonder at the value that is placed on blood and the idea of what makes someone worthy of societies scorn. It also reads like a surgical manual or cook book depending on how literally you read into it. We will also have a special version of our live online performance 'WIREFIRE' centered around this additional chapter to the e8z site.