CyberEmotive Currency: Flowers, People & Particles, Transcending Boundaries

[Randy Eady]

In the rapidly growing field of immersive art Superblue erodes the barrier between the viewer and the artwork; nibbling away "at the boundary between what is living and isn’t living, and organic and inorganic,” notes co-creator Toshiyuki Inoko.   

The show in Miami allows a visitor to pass through a computer screen (as do the characters in Jean Cocteau’s film “Orphee” walk through mirrors). 

For instance, one of four major installations: "Forest of Us" (FoU) is a hedge-maze of sorts in which the traditional boxwood has been replaced by reflective surfaces.  This becomes a portal where water, technology, and reflections merge to amplify the intertwining of people and nature.

FoU features a 3-min intro-film depicting branching — bronchi in the lungs, limbs of trees, rivulets into streams. The voice-over rolls, “Every time I reach a fork in the road, I choose both paths,” and ends, “Can you find it? Go and find it!”

At which point the screen parts, and the visitor walks through a portal into the above mentioned maze -- crafted w/stretched Mylar film on the ceiling, optical-glass mirror on the surrounding walls and winding paths bordered by polished aluminum dividers.  Linking visual symmetries between the structures within us that allow us to breathe and the structures around us make breathing possible: bronchial trees exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide within our lungs and the trees which exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen within our environment makes this piece visceral.

 “What makes a boundary is the recognition of one by people,” teamLab co-founder Toshiyuki Inoko. “On a computer screen, once people recognize the screen, it becomes a boundary. We are trying to eliminate or soften the boundary.” 

 Flowers & People in a Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries

Indeed, by softening the boundary the largest of teamLab’s four exhibitions is devoted to two separately conceived yet intimately interwoven works.  A digital waterfall cascading down two walls and onto the shiny floor comes into contact with a visitor’s feet in the stream parts; flowers with erupting huge blossoms emerge on those spaces -- cleared of the watery image by the visitor’s presence. 

Emotive Currency

With a focus more on the encounter and the elicitation of emotions, the experience -- as a holistic -- ultimately converts any but the most stoic of attendee from passive viewer to active participant. In acts of seeming involuntary insouciance you'd witness from three year olds, visitors engage with their surroundings and, as in any valued immersive -- play a pivotal part in completing the artwork.

Juxtaposed with “Spring Breaking” revelers* obliviousness to COVID 19, a sneak peek by NY Times journalist Arthur Lubow had him describing installation environments as "trippy, meditative, gorgeous installations" that left him awash "as a respite and solace."

*Every Wall is a Door is the  Superblue Miami inaugural exhibition opening 22 April 2021 @ 1101 NW 23 Street, Miami, Fla.

 

[Randy Eady]

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"the combination of techniques w/hyperspectral interference tomography makes it applicable to measuring other transparent, layered structures found in plants, animals, geological samples or synthetic materials."

“The power of this research is we brought all of this experimental and theoretical expertise, and were able to model not only engineered, well-behaved layered structures, but messy, disordered biological structures. And we were able to get useful information out of it in a way a biologist or paleo-climatologist can use.”

[Randy Eady]

In the work w/people w/phantom limb pain, I’ve become aware of meta-normal (multi-sensory phenomenology relating to NDE & light phenomena around the awareness of magnetophosphenes (as experienced as a perception of a transitory light phenomenon within the visual field).  This bio-luminescence property has been discovered in the earliest known synthetic pigment based on the Blue Lotus  Egyptian blue.

This very long-lasting tint's chemical components now reveal how the coating actually emits a rare, invisible luminescence (near-infrared radiation) when exposed to a visible light frequency.  

Not merely having forensic potential (as a new form of "glowing" fingerprinting dust:  see Nat Geo: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/05/explore-egyptian-blue-fingerprints/)  -- on a profoundly spiritual dimension -- it relates to NDE & light phenomena around the awareness of magnetophosphenes (as experienced as a perception of a transitory light phenomenon within the visual field toward or near the end of life).

Another remarkable feature of the application of this pigment is how the artists crafted some relics to appear unpainted or only being detectable to the human eye (under exceptional/specific bio-psycho-chemical circumstances) -- in essence, serving as a guidebook to embrace the afterlife  -- where the bioluminescence in the pigment is often found in some of the paint colors of ancient statues, coffins, and specifically tomb walls.

 

And, while scientists intrigued by this long-lasting tint figured out its chemical components decades ago, it only recently become known how the coating is able to produce a rare, invisible luminescence (near-infrared radiation) when exposed to a visible light frequency. 

 

It can also result in some relics appearing unpainted or being undetectable to the human eye (except under specific circumstances -- such as NDE -- where the luminescence may be perceived). 

 

(See Soul_Becomes_a_Star.pdf).   Additionally, Egyptian blue has the capacity to delaminate by splitting into nanosheets after immersion in water -- which also indicates it did (and continues to serve several quantum level interactions) in such realms as biomedicine, telecommunication/laser technology and even sustainable energy fields.

[Randy Eady]

SuperBlue for sure!

Before solariums & sunbaths employed sunlight treatment in ancient Rome & Greece as heliotherapy (“Helios” derives from the Greek name for their sun god), Egyptian alchemists were practicing a sophisticated form of photodynamic therapy w/creation of fluorescence in blue light pigments formulated some 5,250 years ago.

This color is also engaging the Bladder and Kidney meridians. The BL/KI are associated w/the water element, which is associated with the color blue.

The 5th chakra, likewise, associated with the vibratory energy of "blue."

Quite directly, in Five Element/chakra balancing, PBM (light therapy) will be taken at Ren 22, which is the 5th chakra.