Full Dossier on World of Wires - Jay Scheib
Full Dossier on World of Wires - Jay Scheib
Full Dossier on World of Wires - Jay Scheib
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The simulacrum is never that which c<strong>on</strong>ceals the truth—it is the truth which c<strong>on</strong>ceals that there is<br />
n<strong>on</strong>e. The simulacrum is true. — Ecclesiastes 1<br />
SYNOPSIS<br />
Sarita Choudhury in an open rehearsal for <strong>World</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Wires</strong> as part <strong>of</strong> the PRELUDE 2011 Festival in New York City<br />
WORLD OF WIRES<br />
When Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <str<strong>on</strong>g>Full</str<strong>on</strong>g>er, chief technical <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>of</strong> Rien Incorporated, suddenly goes<br />
missing, Fred Stiller, her colleague, begins to investigate. As the investigati<strong>on</strong> spirals<br />
into chaos, he discovers that he himself is part <strong>of</strong> the simulati<strong>on</strong> he thought he<br />
had been hired to design, and Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <str<strong>on</strong>g>Full</str<strong>on</strong>g>er had simply been deleted.<br />
<strong>World</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Wires</strong> is a performance about the unveiling <strong>of</strong> a computer simulati<strong>on</strong> so powerful<br />
that it is capable <strong>of</strong> simulating the world and everything in it.<br />
This new live-cinema performance inspired by the works <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Nick Bostrom,<br />
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, science-ficti<strong>on</strong> writer Daniel F. Galouye, and an armed robbery at<br />
a Duane Reade drugstore that <strong>Scheib</strong> himself experienced is an all-bets-are-<strong>of</strong>f homage to<br />
the startling possibility that you might actually really be <strong>on</strong>es and zeroes in some<strong>on</strong>e else’s<br />
immaculately programmed world.<br />
1. Fine Print: That Ecclesiastes reference above is a total ficti<strong>on</strong>al lie - it’s Baudrillard’s very own simulati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> a citati<strong>on</strong><br />
and comes from the first page <strong>of</strong> his influential essay The Precessi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Simulacra, SemioText(e) 1983<br />
WORLD OF WIRES | <strong>Jay</strong> <strong>Scheib</strong> | http://www.jayscheib.com | jayscheib@jayscheib.com | page 2
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