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CYlent Blackout Poem: On Being and Nothingness

On Being and Nothingness

– A CYlent Blackout Poem –

She will apprehend transcendence.

It is a certain art form

an idea and

a negation of that idea;

the double property of human reality.

What I really am

is my transcendence.

I escape myself,

I can feel that I escape myself.

Transcendence changed

into infinity of excuses.

“On Being and Nothingness” CYlent I & II are a remediation of Jean-Paul Sarte’s Being and Nothingness, p. 98,99.

The term “CYlent” refers to a creative effect using lenticular motion images specifically designed to be viewed within virtual spaces by avatars (Cyber + Lenticular = CYlent).

Cyberspace

Retrospective: The Creative Galaxy of Barry Richez

The Creative Galaxy of Barry Richez

Retrospective, now showing at LEA6 through March 31st, by virtual artist Barry Richez. A creative galaxy that offers a vast number of installations and sci-fi inspired environments to explore, Retrospective will appeal to visitors who enjoy vivid colours and interactive works. Information about the artist, a destination guide, and fun spacesuits are available at the welcome area. Read Ziki Questi’s Post for more about this LEA Core project.

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them.

“Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them.

“We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one.

“No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.” – Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun.

Cyberspace

Reduced Territory

In City Inside Out, Haveit Neox presented an emotional contortion of space, stripping the city of indoor refuge.

Reduced Territory

Now, the distortion continues, and nature is gasping for space.. Reduced Territory, a thought provoking installation by Haveit Neox, open through August at Wolves Land. Haveit’s own vivid words at the installation add a crucial layer of insight to the work. See for yourself, while you can make it.

Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

Cyberspace

DistritoDistinto (A Musical Installation)

Music inspires a creative team of virtual artists at DistritoDistinto (Anniversary of Different District)

..Featuring work by Bryn Oh, Cica Ghost, Maya Paris, Giovanna Cerise, Betty Tureaud, Eupalinos Ugajin, Rebeca Bashly, JadeYu Fhang, Alpha Auer, and Romy Nayar. An imaginative journey of musical ekphrasis, open now through August 13 at MetaLES.

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou

DistritoDistinto Gallery

Cyberspace

What is Cyberart?

A question that inspires an entire immersive project at LEA12. Asmita Duranjaya and Sable Snakeappletree explore the term “Cyberart” through thoughtful debate and complex layers of text, images, sounds, and space. Their “Paradise of CyberPolis” not only contains examples of multiple artists work, but are at the same time contained by artwork as the sim itself is a creative installation, and immersive narrative game in itself. Together these elements provoke a curiosity towards how cyberart is understood and experienced.

I think of “Cyberart” as a creative process, or event, that happens when man meets machine, that creative dance that emerges as the two collide, online, intertwining in an intermedial space that is experienced uniquely for each of us. Cyberart is open to our feedback and reflection, and to our collective collaboration, manifesting into the most subtle discrepancies or into a significantly alternative experience.

Cyberart, as a term and a creative practice, is perceived and expressed differently through the imagination of these artists, who are currently exhibiting their answers to Asmita Duranjaya’s question at LEA12:

Solkide Auer “InterStellar Overdrive”

Elle Thorkveld “TimeFrames”

Sheba Blitz “Cyber Mama”

Feels Empty “Zeno”

Ranadeep “Cyberspace Zen”

Carabella Babii

Ginger Lorakeet “Cyber Rain”

Cyberspace

▶Moving Islands

It’s a challenge to explain, with words alone, how virtual art becomes a universe of imagination that explodes around you, how such a vast universe can even exist, still contained by the small space of a computer screen. It’s not much easier to express with images, as they too lose layers of experience and complexity.

Sometimes that loss can never be compensated. Sometimes, it inspires a unique poetic vision. Eupalinos Ugajin presents perspectives of virtual creativity, where sights, sounds, space, and emotion intertwine. Moving Islands is a wonderland, in film, about a wonderland in space. A project by Eupalinos Ugajin.

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The Black and Blue Duck-Rabbit

One of the most simple, and effective optical illusions is the Duck-Rabbit.

As a metapicture, the duck-rabbit shifts between two images to the observer, but as the meaning flickers between duck and rabbit in our minds, it is always both, and neither. We are drawn into the picture, becoming a part of it lines, and are asked to choose. Of course, the metapicture knows we will never make up our minds, smiling as it holds on to our attention, until we finally look away.

Recently a new picture has been playing this game, capturing the attention, amusement, and irritation, of eyes glaring at screens all over the globe. Yes, the dress.

Black and Blue, White and Gold, Duck and Rabbit?

While it can be explained by logic, the illusion of the dress became an internet phenomenon because it caused confusion, and provoked questions about images in general, and how we perceive them. It also happened to sprout a fresh bunch of internet memes (interesting work on memes here and here):

When you realize it really was black and blue..

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▶ Pas De Deux

Less an object than an event, the digital text emerges as a dance between artificial and human intelligences, machine and natural languages, as these evolve together through time. -Katherine Hayles

Paper

Establishing a Connection.

Text, in its traditional form, is transforming itself by feeding on the digital. It evolves and mutates, and has become both a creative tool and a product of humanistic discipline. Bridges stretch over the gaps between literary studies and techno-culture, technocrats and theorists have more conversations, give and take, share and learn.

With a broader understanding of the actual form of “text,” our curiosity towards literary connections grow, expanding towards parallel disciplines as well. Literature as Myth; Literature as Meta. Literature as both the source and the recipient of transformation, as it crosses over to unexplored fields. There is creativity sprawled out on paper, waiting to be rediscovered. Some are left behind, maybe they’ll float by as paper boats, their words surviving seeds carried across waves of inspiration, slowly melting away with the water under the bridges.

Paper

Paper Trees

Text. Hyper Text. Digital Space. Virtual World.
This is the story I want to tell.. A story of a paper tree that has sprouted an infinity of cyber twigs.

Cyberspace

State of Flux.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space