ORACLE / NEOEDEN is a digital collage that was made in real time for a day in the project "Friday Take Overs" Binary Project.
The images are part of my personal archive and in the experiment I performed manipulation of video, photography, text and sound, with some poems I wrote and together with the poem by Richard Brautigan "Between machines of loving grace". I then performed a nonlinear fiction/simulation of the mind of a machine called Adam.
This constellation of images starts from an interest in studying the myth of the garden of Eden in relation to modernity, seen as an unfinished promise of prosperity and satisfaction. I understand modernity as a collective unconscious desire to return to that garden. But no longer a mythical garden, but a biotech garden, where nature obeyed our commands and we were gods.
Our promise was the machine, we made it in our image and likeness, it is our baby, our Adam and our Eve.
It’s an extension of our unconscious. Yet we defile that promise because we use the machine as an instrument of war.
Cinema and literature have worked as oracles to elucidate the utopias and dystopias in which we are immersed as if it were a labyrinth.
Today, in the midst of a pandemic, we sail more and more immersed between screens, cloistered in our caves, depending more and more on the machines. So I ask myself, letting my imagination run wild: Will robots ever get married? Start a family? Or will they get to vote or jump into politics? Will an android dream? Are living organisms species of hyper-advanced machines capable of embodying software called soul? Will cyborgs ever have a soul? Will an android pray and perform miracles? Will there be a messiah among the cyborgs? What is the soul? Who are we?
In short, rather than generating certainties, I want to sow questions, so that each person lets his imagination run wild regarding the future of industrial society and humanity.
The proposal was presented to reproduce on mobile phones through the Instagram platform, as an alternative to the lack of face-to-face events during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
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References / Constellation of Images and Sounds:
Poems:
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Machines of Loving Grace / Richard Brautigan
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Kinoglaz Manifesto / Dziga Vertov
Images:
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Robot / Siobhan Hapaska (2001)
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The Garden of Eden (1610-1612) / Jan Brueghel the Elder
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Geoff Fandrick photo
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Early Work - Brian Oldham
Videos:
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Cambridge University - Meet Zoe: A digital talking head that can express human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction. (https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/face-of-the-future-rears-its-head)
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The Holy Mountain / Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973)
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Metalhead / Black Mirror (2011)
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Boston Dynamics / Introducing Spot Classic (previously Spot) - https://youtu.be/M8YjvHYbZ9w
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Erica, The Most Life-Like Humanoid Robot Is Really Beautiful Female Robot – Japanese Robotics
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The Prayer / Frédéric Migayrou and Camille Lenglois (2020) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVppMtO7LHA&t=29s
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Predator / John McTiernan (1987) - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIKUGF5fdmc&t=82s)
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Second Life / Nature
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Metropolis / Fritz Lang (1927)
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CGTN / Japanese Robot Teaches Buddhist Lessons – "A temple in Kyoto, Japan, houses a robot that attracts the attention of devotees as it conveys Buddha's teachings. Known as 'The Companion,' this robot's image is based on the Japanese Bodhisattva Kannon, the Goddess of Compassion." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6aoy282Gw&t=2s)
Music:
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Au Clair de la Lune / Anima (Music Box Version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo4iYaTUV_g&t=40s (First human song recorded on Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's Phonautograph - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbIJc05QTA min 4:39)
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Radioland / Kraftwerk (https://youtu.be/FJIbvB_8vaQ)
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When The Sun Drowns In The Ocean / Altar Of Plagues (https://youtu.be/Eln1J4g2fX0)
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Masked Ball / Jocelyn Pook (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZJdil0_H)
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Los Guaduales / Jorge Villamil (Composer), performed by Garzón y Collazos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P773IwXo7uI)
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Goodbye Sober Day / Mr. Bungle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2bM4sgE1E)