We’re also seeing states — which gave local governments the powers to zone in the first place — actively reviewing their state zoning enabling acts to ensure that local governments are producing the kinds of outcomes that benefit the state as a whole. Connecticut did that, after the Connecticut Zoning Atlas, and Montana after the Montana Zoning Atlas. You also see states like Colorado and New York, where in both cases, the governor introduced zoning reforms which were not successful last year, but which are potentially being resurrected in this legislative session. They need zoning data to make their best case.

And yet, and yet...we all know what it's like to lose ourselves in the moment. When that moment is somehow artificially constructed as a kind of hyperimprovisationally designed experience colored by the unexpected and, yes, the unintended effects of being online, what happens to our notion of what an artist is and where that artist lives?

To rephrase the question: where does the virtual artist, whose navigational dreamworld of fluid intersubjectivity circulates deep inside a peer-to-peer network culture, actually conduct art/life research practice?

To rephrase the question yet again: where is that missing link of day-night-space-time when my flight leaves from Colorado on a Saturday and--less than twenty four hours later--arrives Down Under on Monday?

Talk about cyberpsychogeographical drifting. Perhaps for the nomadic Net artist, this ongoing Life Style Practice of associational thinking that hastily passes through the labyrinthine, networked space of flows takes place in asynchronous realtime.

By asynchronous realtime I am referring to what at times feels like a perpetual jet-lag consciousness or timeless time, a blur motion of experiential metadata that indicates a formal investigation of complex event processing where the VJ artist, always gyrating at a pivotal location in the narrative, becomes a multitude of flux identities nomadically circulating within the neworked space of flows (both geophysical networks and cyberspace networks). Living in asynchronous realtime often produces a feeling of being both avant-garde (ahead of one's time) and time-delayed or even preempted.

--Excerpt From Meta/Data [A Digital Poetics] by Mark Amerika (2007)

A patient running away is a rare and unpleasant event for everyone involved. Most of all due to the life-threatening danger to he patient himself. In this case, he had leapt over not only a fence, but thirty or forty years as well. We didn't know what effect this collision with another reality would have. What’s more, the incident could eventually lead to an investigation and a closing of the community, to yet another round of arguments with the guild about the advisability of such therapy, whether we had the right to "synchronize" internal and external time, and so on.