Senior Project Proposal, in pieces

I'm including information here about my senior project as I work out the details. I hope to organize these thoughts into something professional to submit.

I became interested in Video Art (I guess "tech-art") two years ago, in a history of art course. I watched many videos from the 1970's and onward. My professor referenced sculptures that were often made with domestic technologies-toasters, televisions, etc.. More recent work shown existed completely in cyberspace. The work and the language used fascinated me. We exist with so many man-made things, and interact with them as if they are more than just tools. Look at the vernacular. It's astounding. Watch the interactions.

As a visually-oriented mover (a "dancer" who sees more often than feels) I watch people use computers, televisions, telephones, and the internet. The physical bond is so strong. A sematic practice, even. Our bodies react. Our minds react. These are relationships with material objects. They are more than devices.

I want to do more than document conversations with intimate partners. A ghostly presence. I want to recreate their worlds. Last spring I made a jumping off-piece-"Semiosphere". A four minute piece of a young woman watching the static of a television in the dark. They were talking, exchanging information. She laid before the tv in her underwear, like after sex. I want to explore that more. Honest relationships with material things.

Where does dance/movement fit? I am considering both the mind and body. Information and Action. Where do technological instruments fit? Where are their minds? Where are their bodies? Do they have both? So many more questions to work out.

Conversations with technology-
Woman+television (two bodies)
Woman within the internet (one body and one "conceptual" place)
Two bodies within active (manipulative) image stills (manipulative medium)

and where does the viewer fit?-second dimension
individual viewer-one v. anything on the screen
I (artist/maker) control the eyes/mind/thoughts/experience of the viewer
in the instance of Semiosphere
the viewer was interupting an intimate conversation
Privacy and technology?

Digital bodies are confusing to figure out. I really can't tell if they exist or not?