Title of art piece: Lo and Behold, I am become as a God
Short bio of my piece: “Lo”
- the
first letters ever sent over the internet. Meant to be the word
"login," the internet crashed after the second letter was
sent from UCLA to Stanford. These two letters have now come to
symbolize "lo and behold" - giving weight to the
significance of the internet's birth. I find M. Square's journey in
Abbott's Flatland to parallel our human journey with the internet;
experiencing the internet as a space for individuals to create new
bodies, a place to upload our minds into a land that is eternally
virtual and for the moment, virtually eternal. It seems that John of
Patmo's Revelation has come true – his vision of a new earth, a new
heaven, and our new bodies. John writes as if he saw the internet,
“Lo, a great multitude, which no man could number of all nations,
and kindreds, and people, and tongues,” all spoke together
(Revelation 7:9 KJV). This new medium may make us feel as a God, but
it still reflects humanity's basic anxiety of death and our will to
overcome it. We will to upload our minds into new bodies, into a land
that might be eternal and endless. This art piece is our crowdsourced
bodies and voices experiencing an ascendance, an upload, into a new
dimension where all knowledge is available with a single download.
I'll end with Abott's words, “Lo, the secrets of the earth, the
depths of the mines and inmost caverns of the hills, were bared
before me.”
More to come... pictures will be uploaded after I set up the piece at Little Berlin's >get >put.
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