The sense that being in several places at once in cyberspace can make us less concrete about our bodies – the increasing substancelessness of our bodies and tissues as manipulating information about us becomes more and more the same as manipulating our actual cells and tissues.

The matching sense that the Internet itself is increasingly becoming like an organic entity, a living network familiar to anyone who has seen colour slides of blood vessels, maps of nerve fibres, or the tree-like structures with which cells of any type assemble into living tissues.

It was therefore essential to hold the exhibition in several places – not just sequentially, but at once, with live video feeds and broadband linkups. At some point, the organisers were hoping (or fearing), exhibition, exhibitors, and exhibited are becoming one growing, and perhaps thinking, organism. For our name is Legion.

Digitized Bodies
Date: October 25th – November 25th, 2001
Place: Ludwig Museum
Address: Komor Marcell u. 1, 1095 Budapest
Tel: +36 1 555 3444
https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu