Cyber Dada Data

→ → → → → Digitise the World. Take technology apart. Reuse everything! Right of access to all data. Don’t be rude: talk to your fax machine. Go beyond current standards and values and make your own. Lets digitise the world and save human society on laser disk. Forget the meat of your bodies. Have sex with a computer. Interface! Your body is a burden. Wetware can enhance it. Cyborg implants bring you closer to the true experience. Neuro-circuits. Fully synthesised environments where all physical and emotional feelings can be chemically simulated. This is the future. Don’t let a physical existence fool you. Become superhuman! Modern man’s aesthetic is grounded in pre 20th century decorativeness and over indulgent art theorising. The end of the world is coming, but it is the beginning of a perfect techno world. Stop reviving old cultures. The new aesthetic is computer generated CYBER DADA. ← ← ← ← ←

— an excerpt from Troy Innocent [iconica.org], Dale Nason’s ‘Cyber Dada Manifesto’, 1994.