Today I found an essay by an artist from 1991 that... fully explains where my art comes from. Suzanne Treister's series of fictional video game stills titled "Q. Would You Recognize A Virtual Paradise?" is exactly both in tonal and execution what I've been doing & wanting to do.
She did this 30 years ago. Her techniques, concepts, and messages have found their way into other new media circles throughout those years. It isn't surprising that not only do I have a deep connection with her art, but my work LOOKS like her art. I can say for certain that what has inspired me, was inspired by her.
Both Suzanne's and my work has this repeating stamp effect. probably for the same reason, to emulate video game glitches. Her work also has a lot of game dialogue boxes proposing questions of our reality. "Are you dreaming?" "Do you know?" "Possibly, you know the answer?" This idea of subjective reality with a backdrop of virtual worlds is something I fuck with. Hard.
I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen her work until now. And I don't think I may have just saw it and subconsciously stored it. If I would have saw this before today I would have done what I just did, deep dive the HELL into her work and try to know more about what she does.
If you've read this far, thank you for reading it. I'm damn passionate about this artist because... it feels like I found out where my art comes from. I feel validated for my motifs, styles, and context. I realize the niche medium of art I've been working with has history and foundation now. I'm not alone in my exploration of cyberspace. There was someone before me.
She's still alive, she's 66. I don't think I could reach out to her, I wouldn't know how to articulate my gratitude.
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April/2024🌖♑️Please mind fuck yourselves.
♂️☌ ♆︎ I would cast Elliott as a Pit Bull, in my musical Dogs. (Mascis, the only reason I love you is because I love assholes and you are by far the funniest fucking asshole, I have ever met. You are my skateboarding French Bulldog, if I can forgive you. I’m not sure.) Obviously my Elliott is devoted, and protective. The downside is that I never fully trust the ghost of him and I never want to be on his bad side. He makes me a little hesitant. He makes me tremble just a little. I hate that I love my imaginary relationship with a ghost better than anyone, but we actually do understand each other, it’s just on a level we can’t explain. Thom is like a Chihuahua. Everyone loves Popeye. I love it when I make art connections with Thom. He fucking cracks me up. Thom did you get the connection with your records to the cover of dead air with the animal circle? Eat your spinach if you didn’t. Take my love for Thom as a compliment, Elliott. I don’t want to offend my Pit Bull. No. No one else gets that role but the alive version of you if you turn up alive.
🌖▪️ ☊ I don’t trust anyone, unfortunately. I need people to think of ways to earn my trust. I appreciate people who approach me in a compassionate, respectful manner. I appreciate direct and honest communication.
🌖 ☸︎ ♄︎ My husband and I only had semi-regular sex for a couple years. At this time I have been celibate for OVER A DECADE. Meaning for a fifty year old woman, I’ve had very little experience with physical intimacy.
🌖▪️ ☿︎ Let me make something CRYSTAL fucking CLEAR. I AM not a victim of sexual abuse. I WAS A VIRGIN until I was TWENTY FOUR YEARS OLD. I’ve only had a few sexual encounters.
🌖▪️🚑 I take alternative healing classes and help heal others for my OWN SANITY. My very small donation based business generated LESS than 1000 dollars per year. I think hoes make more than that, unless they are sluts.
🌖 ☌ 🌽 When do I have time to do anything when I work an actual JOB to support myself? Now I am trying to understand why anyone who knows me, would tell people I was a hoe? What is the motivation? To deflect from their own faults? I have a FULL AND COMPLETE CORPORATE WORK HISTORY.
🌖 < 🦚 Also, I really don’t appreciate the mind fuck games. Yes, Mascis, your mind fuck games are really pissing me off. I don’t like the crowd you hang with. Lou especially creeps me the fuck out. I feel like you are a good person who has been misguided about me. That’s why I really do have a soft spot in my heart for you, Mascis. What if you are really a bad person? Can you learn from your mistakes?
🌖🔺 ♅︎ What mistakes do you think I have made? What have I ever done wrong except get out of the way and deal with MY OWN LIFE? When have I ever interfered behind other people’s back? If I don’t like someone I will publicly call them out. I don’t hide my thoughts and feelings. I OWN MY TRUTH even when I regret some of the things I might say. It’s difficult to fucking talk to walls all the time.
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
Three of Swords. Art by Suzanne Treister, from HEXEN 2.0.
What pisses you off is that I MADE YOU GREAT.
Without me everyone KNOWS you are fucking TRASH.
That’s why you left me.
See the end clip?
THAT IS ME MAKING YOU MY BITCH.
YOU FUCKING BITCH.
I KNOCKED YOUR STUPID CUNT OUT.
THOM YORKE IS A STUPID CUNT.
KNOCK. KNOCK.
WHOO
Is
THERE?
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"'HEXEN 2.0 Tarot' features 78 #alchemical drawings depicting interconnected histories of the #computer and the Internet, #cybernetics and the #counterculture science-fiction and scientific projections of the future, #government and #military research programmes, social engineering and ideas of the control society; alongside diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to the advance of technology including the claims of #anarchoprimitivism #technogaianism and #transhumanism Through representing and re-examining these subjects and histories through the lens of #occult belief systems and ideas of the #supernatural the 'HEXEN 2.0 Tarot' takes us to a #hypnotic mesmerising space from where one may imagine and construct possible #alternative futures. Acknowledging precedents such as the traditional tarot deck, The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck and Aleister Crowley's #Thoth #Tarot Deck, Suzanne #Treister has here produced a Tarot, that allows a reader, to use the cards to reconfigure history and/or map out hypothetical future narratives. [For example] in tarot lore, the #Ace of Pentacles represents new beginnings, wealth and inspiration in material or financial matters, such as the energy to undertake a new business venture. In Treister’s deck, [it] conflates The Four Technologies: #nano #bio and info-technology as well as #cognitive science. [And] the drawing pulls quotes from a 2002 report commissioned by the US National Science Foundation, [titled] “Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance.” The Three of #Swords (a card that urges to take a strong look at that which is at the centre of our world), refers in Treister’s version to CIA’s infamous #MKULTRA program, in which volunteers as well as unwitting #civilians were guinea pigs for government mind control experiments with #psychedelica Divorced from its personal application, Treister employs the tarot card for readings of a collective destiny. (at Liverpool) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2oQLoMo76/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Layered Worlds - Research (in progress)
Films
•Blade Runner. (1982). [Film] Ridley Scott. dir. USA: Warner Brothers.
- Set in LA, November 2019
- Utopia become Dystopian
- Flying cars
- Despite it being futuristic, there is still a presence of the ‘past’: things are broken
- About replicants (fish,snakes)
- revolves around ‘eyes’
- Replicants take revenge because of mistreatment
•The Fifth Element. (1997). [Film] Luc Besson. dir. France: Gaumont Buena Vista International
- Starts in Egypt 1914
- Aliens (good and bad)
- 300 years later (2214)
- Aliens can transform into humans (shapeshift)
- Very high tech medical equipment
- Flying cars
- The Fifth Element can save the world (love is the fifth element)
- “Everything you create is used to destroy”
Exhibitions
Anne Imhof - Avatar II
NFT Gallery
After visiting these galleries and looking at the works, they’ve helped me get an idea of what I would like my project to be focused on.
Essays and Articles
Read: ‘Socialising artificial intelligence’ and ‘When AI makes art’
Artists
Cauleen Smith
- interdisciplinary filmmaker
- reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination
- Roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film
- Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction
- She makes things that deploy the tactics of the disciplines
Works:
- Give it or Leave it (I like the layout of the work as well as the colours)
- We already have what we need ( — II —)
Rachel Maclean
-artist
- works predominantly with digital videos
- Her films combine a variety in f references to popular culture, and of genres such as children’s television programmes, horror movies, British comedy, video games, reality TV and Youtube videos
- Work is defined by a constant back and forth between seductive and unsettling
- Hides a darker reality behind bright coloured works
- Works revolves around the theme of consumption in a wester capitalist society
Works:
- We Want Data! (2016)
- Make Me Up
Jinhwa Jang
-illustrator
- Inspired by Japanese comics, anime and games
- neon-hued, sci-fi screen that we may soon be living in
- varying metropolis, where fish offer you food and it’s normal for the sky to be filled with planets
- Works are undeniably bizarre, cyberpunk
Works:
- Anxiety is The Dizziness of Freedom
Beeple
-graphic designer
- known for using various mediums in creating comical, phantasmagoric works that makes political, social commentary while using pop culture figures as references
- Created ‘Everydays’ series of images done and posted online everyday for 5000 days
- Use of futuristic views over current or passed events
- Everydays was sold as an NFT
Works:
- Everydays
- Novaclustr
- Tatooine Hydroponics
Matteo Loglio
-interior designer
- Shape emerging technologies into an approachable, everyday and sustainable reality
- Works to break down complex subjects into simple and accessible pieces of information
- Loglio’s work shines a human light on the future of AI
Works:
- Roby (first non-human AI creative director, it helps to come up with new ideas and products, moderates the Discord community and runs its own instagram account)
- Alto (is a little teachable object, used to introduce the basic concepts of machine learning in a simple way)
Daniel Arsham
-interdisciplinary artist
- architecture is a prevalent subject throughout his work; environments with eroded walls and stairs going nowhere, landscapes where nature overrides structures, and a general sense of playfulness within existing architecture
- Makes architecture do things it is not supposed to do, to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form
- Simple yet paradoxical gestures dominate his sculptural work
Works:
- Blue Calcite Eroded Busy of Laocoön, (2020); thinking about a thousands of years from now, how the distance between trashed computers and statues would be closer together
- Ash and Rose Quartz Eroded Televisions (2014) (—||—)
Suzanne Treister
-contemporary artist
- works known for being conceptually oriented around emerging technologies
- Focus of the works is the relation between technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity
- Has evolved a large body of work which engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional baddies of research to reveal structures that bind power,identity and knowledge
Works:
- SURVIVOR (F)/Entangled Star Net, (2019); oil on canvas
- HEXEN 2.0/Tarot/Wands, (2009-2011); archival giclée prints with watercolour on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper
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